[PATCH] Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
>From 04b504dc0c174d697cc1b75829fe2f7473f193ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:54:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
Signed-off-by: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
---
As discussed on IRC today; I was wondering if my home directory qualified
as a parent directory, but apparently not.
Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 55668e3..0338385 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].
When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, git
consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest
precedence), `.gitattributes` file in the same directory as the
-path in question, and its parent directories (the further the
-directory that contains `.gitattributes` is from the path in
-question, the lower its precedence).
+path in question, and its parent directories within the git repository
+(the further the directory that contains `.gitattributes` is from the
+path in question, the lower its precedence).
If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign
attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow), then
--
1.6.2.2
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>