From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] gitattributes: document more clearly where macros are allowed
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:58:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389668329-15719-1-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
The old text made it sound like macros are only allowed in the
.gitattributes file at the top-level of the working tree. Make it
clear that they are also allowed in $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and in
the global and system-wide gitattributes files.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
---
Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index b322a26..643c1ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -930,9 +930,12 @@ state.
DEFINING MACRO ATTRIBUTES
-------------------------
-Custom macro attributes can be defined only in the `.gitattributes`
-file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in
-macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to:
+Custom macro attributes can be defined only in top-level gitattributes
+files (`$GIT_DIR/info/attributes`, the `.gitattributes` file at the
+top level of the working tree, or the global or system-wide
+gitattributes files), not in `.gitattributes` files in working tree
+subdirectories. The built-in macro attribute "binary" is equivalent
+to:
------------
[attr]binary -diff -merge -text
--
1.8.5.2
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