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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index a172baf99..8af22ecca 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -535,6 +535,23 @@ in the file. E.g. the string `$Format:%H$` will be replaced by the commit hash. +Viewing files in GUI tools +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +`encoding` +^^^^^^^^^^ + +The value of this attribute specifies the character encoding that should +be used by GUI tools (e.g. linkgit:gitk[1] and linkgit:git-gui[1]) to +display the contents of the relevant file. Note that due to performance +considerations linkgit:gitk[1] does not use this attribute unless you +manually enable per-file encodings in its options. + +If this attribute is not set or has an invalid value, the value of the +`gui.encoding` configuration variable is used instead +(See linkgit:git-config[1]). + + USING ATTRIBUTE MACROS ---------------------- |