Imported Upstream version 2.22.0

[platform/upstream/git.git] / Documentation / gitattributes.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index b8392fc..4fb20cd 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ A `gitattributes` file is a simple text file that gives
 
 Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form:
 
-       pattern attr1 attr2 ...
+       pattern attr1 attr2 ...
 
 That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list,
 separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ text file is normalized, its line endings are converted to LF in the
 repository.  To control what line ending style is used in the working
 directory, use the `eol` attribute for a single file and the
 `core.eol` configuration variable for all text files.
-Note that `core.autocrlf` overrides `core.eol`
+Note that setting `core.autocrlf` to `true` or `input` overrides
+`core.eol` (see the definitions of those options in
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
 Set::
 
@@ -312,8 +314,8 @@ stored as UTF-8 internally. A client without `working-tree-encoding`
 support will checkout `foo.ps1` as UTF-8 encoded file. This will
 typically cause trouble for the users of this file.
 +
-If a Git client, that does not support the `working-tree-encoding`
-attribute, adds a new file `bar.ps1`, then `bar.ps1` will be
+If a Git client that does not support the `working-tree-encoding`
+attribute adds a new file `bar.ps1`, then `bar.ps1` will be
 stored "as-is" internally (in this example probably as UTF-16).
 A client with `working-tree-encoding` support will interpret the
 internal contents as UTF-8 and try to convert it to UTF-16 on checkout.
@@ -344,7 +346,9 @@ automatic line ending conversion based on your platform.
 
 Use the following attributes if your '*.ps1' files are UTF-16 little
 endian encoded without BOM and you want Git to use Windows line endings
-in the working directory. Please note, it is highly recommended to
+in the working directory (use `UTF-16LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if
+you want UTF-16 little endian with BOM).
+Please note, it is highly recommended to
 explicitly define the line endings with `eol` if the `working-tree-encoding`
 attribute is used to avoid ambiguity.