Re: [PATCH 1/1] doc: Mention info/attributes in gitrepository-layout
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Nov 22, 2017, 15:54 UTC
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Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
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> Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> > --- > Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt > index adf9554ad2..c60bcad44a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt > +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt > @@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ info/exclude:: > 'git clean' look at it but the core Git commands do not look > at it. See also: linkgit:gitignore[5]. > > +info/attributes:: > + Defines which attributes to assign to a path, similar to per-directory > + `.gitattributes` files. See also: linkgit:gitattributes[5]. > +
Makes sense, but don't we also want to mention a bit more than "similar to"? The entries in this file is treated as higher priority than the in-tree .gitattributes file, which allows us to use it to locally override the choice made by the project.
> info/sparse-checkout:: > This file stores sparse checkout patterns. > See also: linkgit:git-read-tree[1].