[PATCH] Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute
From: Jan Krüger <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:33
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to some kind of path". This clarifies things (and also calls the object ID a hash rather than a name because that might be confusing too). Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <redacted> --- Confused me and a few other people on IRC the other day. Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 2694559..b39db6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ few exceptions. Even though... `ident` ^^^^^^^ -When the attribute `ident` is set to a path, git replaces -`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by -40-character hexadecimal blob object name, followed by a dollar +When the attribute `ident` is set for a path, git replaces +`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by the +40-character hexadecimal blob object hash, followed by a dollar sign `$` upon checkout. Any byte sequence that begins with `$Id:` and ends with `$` in the worktree file is replaced with `$Id$` upon check-in.
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