Re: "man gitattributes" doesn't explain comma-separated attribute values

> On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
>> Am 16.03.19 um 13:22 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
>>>   as a working example, i looked at the top-level .gitattributes file
>>> in the git source code itself, which opens with:
>>>
>>>   * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
>>>   *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
>>>   *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf
>>>   ... snip ...
>>>
>>> first observation is that i see nothing in the man page that explains
>>> the notion of a comma-separated list of attribute values.
>>
>> This comma-separated list is not a property of attributes in
>> general, but a property of the whitespace attribute in particular.
>> See core.whitespace in git-config(1) and "Checking whitespace
>> errors" in gitattributes(5).
> 
>   ah, i was digging through the code trying to figure out where the
> whole CSV thing was explained -- it's massively helpful to understand
> that that property is specific to whitespace. that does not appear to
> be clarified anywhere.