Allow builtin-fetch to work on a detached HEAD

[git.git] / Documentation / gitattributes.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 810df07217b1af6d38ea1c9661af17983d30642f..d0e951ee6f1c391459f822b8ecbb4c1237b209db 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ want to appear as the hunk header, like this:
 Note.  A single level of backslashes are eaten by the
 configuration file parser, so you would need to double the
 backslashes; the pattern above picks a line that begins with a
-backslash, and zero or more occurences of `sub` followed by
+backslash, and zero or more occurrences of `sub` followed by
 `section` followed by open brace, to the end of line.
 
 There are a few built-in patterns to make this easier, and `tex`
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ abc -foo -bar
 the attributes given to path `t/abc` are computed as follows:
 
 1. By examining `t/.gitattributes` (which is in the same
-   diretory as the path in question), git finds that the first
+   directory as the path in question), git finds that the first
    line matches.  `merge` attribute is set.  It also finds that
    the second line matches, and attributes `foo` and `bar`
    are unset.
@@ -405,12 +405,12 @@ the attributes given to path `t/abc` are computed as follows:
    and `bar` attributes should be given to this path, so it
    leaves `foo` and `bar` unset.  Attribute `baz` is set.
 
-3. Finally it examines `$GIT_DIR/info/gitattributes`.  This file
+3. Finally it examines `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes`.  This file
    is used to override the in-tree settings.  The first line is
    a match, and `foo` is set, `bar` is reverted to unspecified
    state, and `baz` is unset.
 
-As the result, the attributes assignement to `t/abc` becomes:
+As the result, the attributes assignment to `t/abc` becomes:
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 foo    set to true
@@ -421,6 +421,23 @@ frotz      unspecified
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
+Creating an archive
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+`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
+gitlink:git-archive[1] 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 gitlink:git-log[1],
+except that they need to be wrapped like this: `$Format:PLACEHOLDERS$`
+in the file.  E.g. the string `$Format:%H$` will be replaced by the
+commit hash.
+
+
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite