51441e64 (stop using HEAD for attributes in bare repository by default, 2024-05-03) has addressed a recent performance regression by partially reverting a topic that was merged at 26dd307c (Merge branch 'jc/attr-tree-config', 2023-10-30). But it forgot to update the documentation to remove the mention of a special case in bare repositories. Let's update the document before the update hits the next release. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config/attr.txt | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git c/Documentation/config/attr.txt w/Documentation/config/attr.txt index 1a482d6af2..c4a5857993 100644 --- c/Documentation/config/attr.txt +++ w/Documentation/config/attr.txt @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ attr.tree:: A reference to a tree in the repository from which to read attributes, - instead of the `.gitattributes` file in the working tree. In a bare - repository, this defaults to `HEAD:.gitattributes`. If the value does - not resolve to a valid tree object, an empty tree is used instead. + instead of the `.gitattributes` file in the working tree. If the value + does not resolve to a valid tree object, an empty tree is used instead. When the `GIT_ATTR_SOURCE` environment variable or `--attr-source` command line option are used, this configuration variable has no effect.
