From 684e40f657ae004d60dfa833567bec4a409d78f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:03:25 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 4 +++- Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 20e95318f3..db07459bbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -500,7 +500,9 @@ core.attributesfile:: In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and '.git/info/attributes', git looks into this file for attributes (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same - way as for `core.excludesfile`. + way as for `core.excludesfile`. Its default value is + $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not + set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead. core.editor:: Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 80120ea14f..e16f3e175b 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into `.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]). +Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME +is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead. Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the `$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file. -- cgit v1.2.1