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directory that contains `.gitattributes` is from the path in
question, the lower its precedence).
+If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign
+attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow), then
+attributes should be placed in the `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
+Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other
+repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into
+`.gitattributes` files.
+
Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute
for a path to `unspecified` state. This can be done by listing
the name of the attribute prefixed with an exclamation point `!`.
These attributes affect how the contents stored in the
repository are copied to the working tree files when commands
-such as `git checkout` and `git merge` run. They also affect how
+such as `git-checkout` and `git-merge` run. They also affect how
git stores the contents you prepare in the working tree in the
-repository upon `git add` and `git commit`.
+repository upon `git-add` and `git-commit`.
`crlf`
^^^^^^
converted to LF upon checkin, but there is no conversion done
upon checkout.
+If `core.safecrlf` is set to "true" or "warn", git verifies if
+the conversion is reversible for the current setting of
+`core.autocrlf`. For "true", git rejects irreversible
+conversions; for "warn", git only prints a warning but accepts
+an irreversible conversion. The safety triggers to prevent such
+a conversion done to the files in the work tree, but there are a
+few exceptions. Even though...
+
+- `git-add` itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the
+ next checkout would, so the safety triggers;
+
+- `git-apply` to update a text file with a patch does touch the files
+ in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF
+ conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the
+ safety does not trigger;
+
+- `git-diff` itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is
+ often run to inspect the changes you intend to next `git-add`. To
+ catch potential problems early, safety triggers.
+
`ident`
^^^^^^^
Generating diff text
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The attribute `diff` affects if `git diff` generates textual
+The attribute `diff` affects if `git-diff` generates textual
patch for the path or just says `Binary files differ`. It also
can affect what line is shown on the hunk header `@@ -k,l +n,m @@`
line.
attribute set to `jcdiff`, it calls the command you specified
with the above configuration, i.e. `j-c-diff`, with 7
parameters, just like `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` program is called.
-See linkgit:git[7] for details.
+See linkgit:git[1] for details.
Defining a custom hunk-header
Creating an archive
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+`export-ignore`
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Files and directories with the attribute `export-ignore` won't be added to
+archive files.
+
`export-subst`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If the attribute `export-subst` is set for a file then git will expand
several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. The
-expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e. if
-linkgit:git-archive[1] has been given a tree instead of a commit or a
+expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e., if
+`git-archive` has been given a tree instead of a commit or a
tag then no replacement will be done. The placeholders are the same
as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of linkgit:git-log[1],
except that they need to be wrapped like this: `$Format:PLACEHOLDERS$`
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite