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| author | Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> | 2008-10-30 19:14:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-10-31 01:07:10 -0700 |
| commit | 2c850f1221efd2441c3794e163ea3918ce31c15b (patch) | |
| tree | aa05b16eed1df701b7e52f4b6da6310e5c965858 /Documentation/gitattributes.txt | |
| parent | 41d8cf7d7fd79fe1fd00b04052c49bffaedfd309 (diff) | |
| download | git-2c850f1221efd2441c3794e163ea3918ce31c15b.tar.gz git-2c850f1221efd2441c3794e163ea3918ce31c15b.tar.xz | |
Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute
The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can
mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to
some kind of path". This clarifies things.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitattributes.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 53da9b4f6..42776f089 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ few exceptions. Even though... `ident` ^^^^^^^ -When the attribute `ident` is set to a path, git replaces -`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by +When the attribute `ident` is set for a path, git replaces +`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by the 40-character hexadecimal blob object name, followed by a dollar sign `$` upon checkout. Any byte sequence that begins with `$Id:` and ends with `$` in the worktree file is replaced |