From: Jan Krüger Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:14:33 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute X-Git-Tag: v1.6.0.4~24 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c850f1221efd2441c3794e163ea3918ce31c15b;p=git.git Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to some kind of path". This clarifies things. Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 53da9b4f6..42776f089 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ few exceptions. Even though... `ident` ^^^^^^^ -When the attribute `ident` is set to a path, git replaces -`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by +When the attribute `ident` is set for a path, git replaces +`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by the 40-character hexadecimal blob object name, followed by a dollar sign `$` upon checkout. Any byte sequence that begins with `$Id:` and ends with `$` in the worktree file is replaced