Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This is the documentation part of > > 1a9d7e9 (attr.c: read .gitattributes from index as well. - 2007-08-14) > 06f33c1 (Read attributes from the index that is being checked out - 2009-03-13) > > Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > I looked around but did not see anywhere mentioning this. If I did > not miss anything, then we should take a note about this to avoid > surprises. > > Resend, this time git@vger is CCed. Sorry for the noise. > > Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > index 99ed04d..8c52a99 100644 > --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > @@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally > global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest > precedence). > > +Normally if `.gitattributes` is not found in a directory in work tree, > +the same path in the index is examined. If there's a `.gitattributes` > +version in the index, that version will be used. During checkout process, > +the order of examination is reversed: index version is preferred over > +the work tree version. > + Yeah, thanks for writing it up. The "direction" fix was done to help people when they check out a commit when a different commit with different .gitattributes is checked out to the working tree. > If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign > attributes to files that are particular to > one user's workflow for that repository), then -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html