Re: [PATCH v2] docs: note the type of core.attributesfile
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Dec 18, 2025, 00:15 UTC
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Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com> writes:
> This change is basically the same rewording as was done to > 'core.excludesFile' in dca83abde2 (config: describe 'pathname' value > type).
Indeed, when we look at Documentation/config.txt in the commit immediately before that one, the description for core.excludesFile and core.attributesFile starts quite similarly. The old commit dca83abd (config: describe 'pathname' value type, 2016-04-29) should have done this already back then when it touched core.excludesFile.
Will queue. Thanks.
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> Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com> > --- > Documentation/config/core.adoc | 7 +++---- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.adoc b/Documentation/config/core.adoc > index 01202da7cd..9bc9de29d9 100644 > --- a/Documentation/config/core.adoc > +++ b/Documentation/config/core.adoc > @@ -492,10 +492,9 @@ core.askPass:: > command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT. > > core.attributesFile:: > - In addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory) and > - `.git/info/attributes`, Git looks into this file for attributes > - (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same > - way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is > + Specifies the pathname to the file that contains attributes (see > + linkgit:gitattributes[5]), in addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory) > + and `.git/info/attributes`. Its default value is > `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not > set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/attributes` is used instead.