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attr: a note about the order of .gitattributes lookup

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1a9d7e9 (attr.c: read .gitattributes from index as well. - 2007-08-14)
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Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally
global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest
precedence).
When the `.gitattributes` file is missing from the work tree, the
path in the index is used as a fall-back. During checkout process,
`.gitattributes` in the index is used and then the file in the
working tree is used as a fall-back.
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