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authorNguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2012-10-10 20:55:52 +0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-10-10 11:09:20 -0700
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attr: a note about the order of .gitattributes lookup
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 <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -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