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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/core.adoc | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.adoc b/Documentation/config/core.adoc index 01202da7cd..9bc9de29d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/core.adoc @@ -492,10 +492,9 @@ core.askPass:: command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT. core.attributesFile:: - In addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory) and - `.git/info/attributes`, Git looks into this file for attributes - (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same - way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is + Specifies the pathname to the file that contains attributes (see + linkgit:gitattributes[5]), in addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory) + and `.git/info/attributes`. Its default value is `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/attributes` is used instead. |