From 40701adbcbbc1e3e4485562a36343f4781e62be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:55:52 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] attr: a note about the order of .gitattributes lookup MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is the documentation part of 1a9d7e9 (attr.c: read .gitattributes from index as well. - 2007-08-14) 06f33c1 (Read attributes from the index that is being checked out - 2009-03-13) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index e16f3e175b..aff760ef7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest precedence). +When the `.gitattributes` file is missing from the work tree, the +path in the index is used as a fall-back. During checkout process, +`.gitattributes` in the index is used and then the file in the +working tree is used as a fall-back. + If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow for that repository), then -- 2.11.4.GIT