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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6bf3b81348 diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary
Too large files may lead to failure to allocate memory. If it happens
here, it could impact quite a few commands that involve
diff. Moreover, too large files are inefficient to compare anyway (and
most likely non-text), so mark them binary and skip looking at their
content.

Noticed-by: Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-18 10:16:45 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
e78e6967f3 gitattributes: document more clearly where macros are allowed
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>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-14 13:56:56 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Jeff King
5f836422ab Merge branch 'nd/attr-match-optim-more'
Start laying the foundation to build the "wildmatch" after we can
agree on its desired semantics.

* nd/attr-match-optim-more:
  attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore
  gitignore: make pattern parsing code a separate function
  exclude: split pathname matching code into a separate function
  exclude: fix a bug in prefix compare optimization
  exclude: split basename matching code into a separate function
  exclude: stricten a length check in EXC_FLAG_ENDSWITH case
2012-11-09 12:42:25 -05:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
82dce998c2 attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore
.gitattributes and .gitignore share the same pattern syntax but has
separate matching implementation. Over the years, ignore's
implementation accumulates more optimizations while attr's stays the
same.

This patch reuses the core matching functions that are also used by
excluded_from_list. excluded_from_list and path_matches can't be
merged due to differences in exclude and attr, for example:

* "!pattern" syntax is forbidden in .gitattributes.  As an attribute
  can be unset (i.e. set to a special value "false") or made back to
  unspecified (i.e. not even set to "false"), "!pattern attr" is unclear
  which one it means.

* we support attaching attributes to directories, but git-core
  internally does not currently make use of attributes on
  directories.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-15 14:57:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d47dc7f2d Sync with maint
* maint:
  attr: a note about the order of .gitattributes lookup
2012-10-10 14:54:33 -07:00
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
40701adbcb attr: a note about the order of .gitattributes lookup
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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-10 11:09:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4eed8689b Merge branch 'aj/xfuncname-ada'
* aj/xfuncname-ada:
  Add userdiff patterns for Ada
2012-09-25 10:40:11 -07:00
Adrian Johnson
e90d065e64 Add userdiff patterns for Ada
Add Ada xfuncname and wordRegex patterns to the list of builtin
patterns.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Johnson <ajohnson@redneon.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-16 21:54:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e6d29a4b47 Merge branch 'jc/ll-merge-binary-ours'
"git merge -Xtheirs" did not help content-level merge of binary
files; it should just take their version.  Also "*.jpg binary" in
the attributes did not imply they should use the binary ll-merge
driver.

* jc/ll-merge-binary-ours:
  ll-merge: warn about inability to merge binary files only when we can't
  attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driver
  merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to binary ll-merge driver
2012-09-14 21:39:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
155a4b712e attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driver
The built-in "binary" attribute macro expands to "-diff -text", so
that textual diff is not produced, and the contents will not go
through any CR/LF conversion ever.  During a merge, it should also
choose the "binary" low-level merge driver, but it didn't.

Make it expand to "-diff -merge -text".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-08 21:28:55 -07:00
Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen
684e40f657 Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes
This gives the default value for the core.attributesfile variable
following the exact same logic of the previous change for the
core.excludesfile setting.

Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25 09:06:15 -07:00
Jehan Bing
36daaaca00 Add a setting to require a filter to be successful
By default, a missing filter driver or a failure from the filter driver is
not an error, but merely makes the filter operation a no-op pass through.
This is useful to massage the content into a shape that is more convenient
for the platform, filesystem, and the user to use, and the content filter
mechanism is not used to turn something unusable into usable.

However, we could also use of the content filtering mechanism and store
the content that cannot be directly used in the repository (e.g. a UUID
that refers to the true content stored outside git, or an encrypted
content) and turn it into a usable form upon checkout (e.g. download the
external content, or decrypt the encrypted content).  For such a use case,
the content cannot be used when filter driver fails, and we need a way to
tell Git to abort the whole operation for such a failing or missing filter
driver.

Add a new "filter.<driver>.required" configuration variable to mark the
second use case.  When it is set, git will abort the operation when the
filter driver does not exist or exits with a non-zero status code.

Signed-off-by: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:37:08 -08:00
Gustaf Hendeby
53b10a1405 Add built-in diff patterns for MATLAB code
MATLAB is often used in industry and academia for scientific
computations motivating it being included as a built-in pattern.

Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-15 16:11:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
324b6b1678 Merge branch 'mh/check-attr-relative'
* mh/check-attr-relative: (29 commits)
  test-path-utils: Add subcommand "prefix_path"
  test-path-utils: Add subcommand "absolute_path"
  git-check-attr: Normalize paths
  git-check-attr: Demonstrate problems with relative paths
  git-check-attr: Demonstrate problems with unnormalized paths
  git-check-attr: test that no output is written to stderr
  Rename git_checkattr() to git_check_attr()
  git-check-attr: Fix command-line handling to match docs
  git-check-attr: Drive two tests using the same raw data
  git-check-attr: Add an --all option to show all attributes
  git-check-attr: Error out if no pathnames are specified
  git-check-attr: Process command-line args more systematically
  git-check-attr: Handle each error separately
  git-check-attr: Extract a function error_with_usage()
  git-check-attr: Introduce a new variable
  git-check-attr: Extract a function output_attr()
  Allow querying all attributes on a file
  Remove redundant check
  Remove redundant call to bootstrap_attr_stack()
  Extract a function collect_all_attrs()
  ...
2011-08-17 17:36:22 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
cde151815e doc: Add a link from gitattributes(5) to git-check-attr(1)
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:53:15 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
0922570c76 gitattributes: Reword "attribute macro" to "macro attribute"
The new wording makes it clearer that such a beast is an attribute in
addition to being a macro (as opposed to being only a macro that is
used for attributes).

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-03 10:32:54 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
98e8406632 gitattributes: Clarify discussion of attribute macros
In particular, make it clear that attribute macros are themselves
recorded as attributes in addition to setting other attributes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-03 10:32:02 -07:00
Jeff King
55601c6a45 doc: discuss textconv versus external diff drivers
We already talk about how to use each one and how they work,
but it is a reasonable question to wonder why one might use
one over the other.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-24 15:57:03 -07:00
Alexei Sholik
b547ce0b18 docs: fix grammar in gitattributes.txt
[jc: with a fixlet from Marc Branchaud]

Signed-off-by: Alexei Sholik <alcosholik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-18 09:58:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
17e1c9e2fd Merge branch 'jn/perl-funcname'
* jn/perl-funcname:
  userdiff/perl: catch BEGIN/END/... and POD as headers
  diff: funcname and word patterns for perl
2011-01-13 11:38:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
37ee62bc6b Merge branch 'jk/diff-driver-binary-doc'
* jk/diff-driver-binary-doc:
  docs: explain diff.*.binary option
2011-01-13 11:34:56 -08:00
Jeff King
ab4356111a docs: explain diff.*.binary option
This was added long ago as part of the userdiff refactoring
for textconv, as internally it made the code simpler and
cleaner. However, there was never a concrete use case for
actually using the config variable.

Now that Matthieu Moy has provided such a use case, it's
easy to explain it using his example.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-10 10:00:14 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
71a5d4bc0e diff: funcname and word patterns for perl
The default function name discovery already works quite well for Perl
code... with the exception of here-documents (or rather their ending).

 sub foo {
	print <<END
 here-document
 END
	return 1;
 }

The default funcname pattern treats the unindented END line as a
function declaration and puts it in the @@ line of diff and "grep
--show-function" output.

With a little knowledge of perl syntax, we can do better.  You can
try it out by adding "*.perl diff=perl" to the gitattributes file.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-27 08:47:21 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
a2b665de4b convert filter: supply path to external driver
Filtering to support keyword expansion may need the name of
the file being filtered.  In particular, to support p4 keywords
like

    $File: //depot/product/dir/script.sh $

the smudge filter needs to know the name of the file it is
smudging.

Allow "%f" in the custom filter command line specified in the
configuration.  This will be substituted by the filename
inside a single-quote pair to be passed to the shell.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-22 10:19:32 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
f4b05a4947 Make the tab width used for whitespace checks configurable
A new whitespace "rule" is added that sets the tab width to use for
whitespace checks and fix-ups and replaces the hard-coded constant 8.

Since the setting is part of the rules, it can be set per file using
.gitattributes.

The new configuration is backwards compatible because older git versions
simply ignore unknown whitespace rules.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-01 14:47:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
083dd39ed4 Merge branch 'bc/fortran-userdiff'
* bc/fortran-userdiff:
  userdiff.c: add builtin fortran regex patterns
2010-09-29 13:49:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2851e8eba5 Merge branch 'po/etc-gitattributes'
* po/etc-gitattributes:
  Add global and system-wide gitattributes

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Makefile
2010-09-29 13:47:51 -07:00
Brandon Casey
909a5494f8 userdiff.c: add builtin fortran regex patterns
This adds fortran xfuncname and wordRegex patterns to the list of builtin
patterns.  The intention is for the patterns to be appropriate for all
versions of fortran including 77, 90, 95.  The patterns can be enabled by
adding the diff=fortran attribute to the .gitattributes file for the
desired file glob.

This also adds a new macro named IPATTERN which is just like the PATTERNS
macro except it sets the REG_ICASE flag so that case will be ignored.

The test code in t4018 and the docs were updated as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-10 09:38:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8aed4a5e38 Merge branch 'jn/merge-renormalize'
* jn/merge-renormalize:
  merge-recursive --renormalize
  rerere: never renormalize
  rerere: migrate to parse-options API
  t4200 (rerere): modernize style
  ll-merge: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  ll-merge: make flag easier to populate
  Documentation/technical: document ll_merge
  merge-trees: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  merge-trees: push choice to renormalize away from low level
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): check that it can be turned off
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): try checkout -m and cherry-pick
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): style nitpicks
  Don't expand CRLFs when normalizing text during merge
  Try normalizing files to avoid delete/modify conflicts when merging
  Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization

Conflicts:
	builtin/rerere.c
	t/t4200-rerere.sh
2010-09-03 09:43:41 -07:00
Petr Onderka
6df42ab984 Add global and system-wide gitattributes
Allow gitattributes to be set globally and system wide. This way, settings
for particular file types can be set in one place and apply for all user's
repositories.

The location of system-wide attributes file is $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes.
The location of the global file can be configured by setting
core.attributesfile.

Some parts of the code were copied from the implementation of the same
functionality in config.c.

Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-01 12:19:36 -07:00
Petr Onderka
b221207db9 Userdiff patterns for C#
Add userdiff patterns for C#. This code is an improved version of
code by Adam Petaccia from 21 June 2009 mail to the list.

Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-16 18:28:27 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
f217f0e86d Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization
Currently, merging across changes in line ending normalization is
painful since files containing CRLF will conflict with normalized files,
even if the only difference between the two versions is the line
endings.  Additionally, any "real" merge conflicts that exist are
obscured because every line in the file has a conflict.

Assume you start out with a repo that has a lot of text files with CRLF
checked in (A):

      o---C
     /     \
    A---B---D

B: Add "* text=auto" to .gitattributes and normalize all files to
   LF-only

C: Modify some of the text files

D: Try to merge C

You will get a ridiculous number of LF/CRLF conflicts when trying to
merge C into D, since the repository contents for C are "wrong" wrt the
new .gitattributes file.

Fix ll-merge so that the "base", "theirs" and "ours" stages are passed
through convert_to_worktree() and convert_to_git() before a three-way
merge.  This ensures that all three stages are normalized in the same
way, removing from consideration differences that are only due to
normalization.

This feature is optional for now since it changes a low-level mechanism
and is not necessary for the majority of users.  The "merge.renormalize"
config variable enables it.

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-02 15:43:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d5cff17eda Merge branch 'eb/core-eol'
* eb/core-eol:
  Add "core.eol" config variable
  Rename the "crlf" attribute "text"
  Add per-repository eol normalization
  Add tests for per-repository eol normalization

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Makefile
2010-06-21 06:02:49 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
942e774767 Add "core.eol" config variable
Introduce a new configuration variable, "core.eol", that allows the user
to set which line endings to use for end-of-line-normalized files in the
working directory.  It defaults to "native", which means CRLF on Windows
and LF everywhere else.

Note that "core.autocrlf" overrides core.eol.  This means that

[core]
	autocrlf = true

puts CRLFs in the working directory even if core.eol is set to "lf".

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-06 21:20:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1bdd46cd3a Merge branch 'tr/word-diff'
* tr/word-diff:
  diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-words

Conflicts:
	diff.c
2010-05-21 04:02:17 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
5ec3e67052 Rename the "crlf" attribute "text"
As discussed on the list, "crlf" is not an optimal name.  Linus
suggested "text", which is much better.

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-19 20:42:34 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
fd6cce9e89 Add per-repository eol normalization
Change the semantics of the "crlf" attribute so that it enables
end-of-line normalization when it is set, regardless of "core.autocrlf".

Add a new setting for "crlf": "auto", which enables end-of-line
conversion but does not override the automatic text file detection.

Add a new attribute "eol" with possible values "crlf" and "lf".  When
set, this attribute enables normalization and forces git to use CRLF or
LF line endings in the working directory, respectively.

The line ending style to be used for normalized text files in the
working directory is set using "core.autocrlf".  When it is set to
"true", CRLFs are used in the working directory; when set to "input" or
"false", LFs are used.

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-19 20:36:15 -07:00
Thomas Rast
882749a04f diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-words
This teaches the --color-words engine a more general interface that
supports two new modes:

* --word-diff=plain, inspired by the 'wdiff' utility (most similar to
  'wdiff -n <old> <new>'): uses delimiters [-removed-] and {+added+}

* --word-diff=porcelain, which generates an ad-hoc machine readable
  format:
  - each diff unit is prefixed by [-+ ] and terminated by newline as
    in unified diff
  - newlines in the input are output as a line consisting only of a
    tilde '~'

Both of these formats still support color if it is enabled, using it
to highlight the differences.  --color-words becomes a synonym for
--word-diff=color, which is the color-only format.  Also adds some
compatibility/convenience options.

Thanks to Junio C Hamano and Miles Bader for good ideas.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-14 10:56:53 -07:00
Jeff King
d9bae1a178 diff: cache textconv output
Running a textconv filter can take a long time. It's
particularly bad for a large file which needs to be spooled
to disk, but even for small files, the fork+exec overhead
can add up for something like "git log -p".

This patch uses the notes-cache mechanism to keep a fast
cache of textconv output. Caches are stored in
refs/notes/textconv/$x, where $x is the userdiff driver
defined in gitattributes.

Caching is enabled only if diff.$x.cachetextconv is true.

In my test repo, on a commit with 45 jpg and avi files
changed and a textconv to show their exif tags:

  [before]
  $ time git show >/dev/null
  real    0m13.724s
  user    0m12.057s
  sys     0m1.624s

  [after, first run]
  $ git config diff.mfo.cachetextconv true
  $ time git show >/dev/null
  real    0m14.252s
  user    0m12.197s
  sys     0m1.800s

  [after, subsequent runs]
  $ time git show >/dev/null
  real    0m0.352s
  user    0m0.148s
  sys     0m0.200s

So for a slight (3.8%) cost on the first run, we achieve an
almost 40x speed up on subsequent runs.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-02 00:05:31 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
16758621d5 Documentation: mention conflict marker size argument (%L) for merge driver
23a64c9e (conflict-marker-size: new attribute, 2010-01-16) introduced the
new attribute and also pass the conflict marker size as %L to merge driver
commands. This documents the substitution.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-23 13:11:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4c734803cb conflict-marker-size: add test and docs
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20 23:49:27 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.

The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.

Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Nanako Shiraishi
d79f5d1718 Illustrate "filter" attribute with an example
The example was taken from aa4ed402c9
(Add 'filter' attribute and external filter driver definition).

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-14 22:04:30 -08:00
Nasser Grainawi
975457f185 Document delta attribute in "git help attributes".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21 14:07:44 -07:00
Ori Avtalion
57f6ec0290 Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what
the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them
as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are
implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to
use the term "git commands" consistently.

Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12 16:14:41 -07:00
Jeff King
c4c86d2389 doc/gitattributes: clarify location of config text
The gitattributes documentation has a section on the "diff"
attribute, with subsections for each of the things you might
want to configure in your diff config section (external
diff, hunk headers, etc). The first such subsection
specifically notes that the definition of the diff driver
should go into $GIT_DIR/config, but subsequent sections do
not.

This location is implied if you are reading the
documentation sequentially, but it is not uncommon for a new
user to jump to (or be referred to) a specific section. For
a new user who does not know git well enough to recognize
the config syntax, it is not clear that those directives
don't also go into the gitattributes file.

This patch just mentions the config file in each subsection,
similar to the way it is mentioned in the first.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-17 21:28:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
747f9d30ed Merge branch 'maint-1.6.1' into maint
* maint-1.6.1:
  Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
  git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
  git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
2009-04-07 23:05:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aa41cf8f43 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint-1.6.1
* maint-1.6.0:
  Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
  git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
  git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
2009-04-07 22:51:14 -07:00
Jason Merrill
20ff3ec28e Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
Use the term "toplevel of the work tree" in gitattributes.txt and
gitignore.txt to define the limits of the search for those files.

Signed-off-by: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 21:58:25 -07:00