Merge branch 'bg/maint-remote-update-default' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / gitattributes.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index aaa073efc80522a649f17d60127aae8cc85b0b3b..5a45e51890b1f4b13db3d8082da83731dc76ceac 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -197,6 +197,25 @@ intent is that if someone unsets the filter driver definition,
 or does not have the appropriate filter program, the project
 should still be usable.
 
+For example, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `filter`
+attribute for paths.
+
+------------------------
+*.c    filter=indent
+------------------------
+
+Then you would define a "filter.indent.clean" and "filter.indent.smudge"
+configuration in your .git/config to specify a pair of commands to
+modify the contents of C programs when the source files are checked
+in ("clean" is run) and checked out (no change is made because the
+command is "cat").
+
+------------------------
+[filter "indent"]
+       clean = indent
+       smudge = cat
+------------------------
+
 
 Interaction between checkin/checkout attributes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -404,7 +423,7 @@ Performing a three-way merge
 
 The attribute `merge` affects how three versions of a file is
 merged when a file-level merge is necessary during `git merge`,
-and other programs such as `git revert` and `git cherry-pick`.
+and other commands such as `git revert` and `git cherry-pick`.
 
 Set::
 
@@ -560,6 +579,16 @@ in the file.  E.g. the string `$Format:%H$` will be replaced by the
 commit hash.
 
 
+Packing objects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+`delta`
+^^^^^^^
+
+Delta compression will not be attempted for blobs for paths with the
+attribute `delta` set to false.
+
+
 Viewing files in GUI tools
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~