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| author | Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com> | 2010-09-01 00:42:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-09-01 12:19:36 -0700 |
| commit | 6df42ab98480dcac473ca7d701cfca4a0051d0c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 7b0f2000cf0d92335e966838eb77bb37f09f51d9 /Documentation/gitattributes.txt | |
| parent | 64fdc08dac6694d1e754580e7acb82dfa4988bb9 (diff) | |
| download | git-6df42ab98480dcac473ca7d701cfca4a0051d0c1.tar.gz | |
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 $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes.
The location of the global file can be configured by setting
core.attributesfile.
Some parts of the code were copied from the implementation of the same
functionality in config.c.
Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitattributes.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 564586b943..c6bdeae66d 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -62,14 +62,21 @@ consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest precedence), `.gitattributes` file in the same directory as the path in question, and its parent directories up to the toplevel of the work tree (the further the directory that contains `.gitattributes` -is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). +is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally +global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest +precedence). If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign -attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow), then +attributes to files that are particular to +one user's workflow for that repository), then attributes should be placed in the `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file. Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into -`.gitattributes` files. +`.gitattributes` files. Attributes that should affect all repositories +for a single user should be placed in a file specified by the +`core.attributesfile` configuration option (see linkgit:git-config[1]). +Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the +`$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file. Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute for a path to `unspecified` state. This can be done by listing |