diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitattributes.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index e0b66c1220..3173dee7ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form: pattern attr1 attr2 ... That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list, -separated by whitespaces. When the pattern matches the -path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to -the path. +separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are +ignored. Lines that begin with '#' are ignored. Patterns +that begin with a double quote are quoted in C style. +When the pattern matches the path in question, the attributes +listed on the line are given to the path. Each attribute can be in one of these states for a given path: |