core.autocrlf documentation: mention the crlf attribute

The description of the configuration variable is obsolete and
wrong (saying only file content is used), not just incomplete.
It has used the attribute mechanism for a long time.

The documentation of gitattributes mentions the core.autocrlf
configuration variable in its description of crlf attribute.
Refer to the gitattributes documentation from here as well.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index cd1781498eb92d7dd0d3648a8fe188fc75a6df8c..fa0e8596c1cdbbf3cd9f76d2f9a274ae5c290453 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -169,9 +169,10 @@ core.autocrlf::
        writing to the filesystem.  The variable can be set to
        'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
        reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
-       `LF` at the end of lines.  Currently, which paths to consider
-       "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is
-       decided purely based on the contents.
+       `LF` at the end of lines.  A file is considered
+       "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) based on
+       the file's `crlf` attribute, or if `crlf` is unspecified,
+       based on the file's contents.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
 
 core.safecrlf::
        If true, makes git check if converting `CRLF` as controlled by