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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 46f9d591aa..47a621b733 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -421,6 +421,20 @@ frotz unspecified ---------------------------------------------------------------- +Creating an archive +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +`specfile` +^^^^^^^^^^ + +If the attribute `specfile` is set for a file then git will expand +several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. The +expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e. if +gitlink:git-archive[1] has been given a tree instead of a commit or a +tag then no replacement will be done. The placeholders are the same +as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of gitlink:git-log[1]. + + GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |