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attr: a note about the order of .gitattributes lookup
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(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>
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global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest
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precedence).
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When the `.gitattributes` file is missing from the work tree, the
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path in the index is used as a fall-back. During checkout process,
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`.gitattributes` in the index is used and then the file in the
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working tree is used as a fall-back.
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If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign
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attributes to files that are particular to
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one user's workflow for that repository), then
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