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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
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--- 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
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