[PATCH] Documentation: Mention comment syntax in gitattributes.txt
From: Michal Sojka <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:03:10
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
gitattributes documentation does not specify how to include comments in gitattribute files. According to parse_attr_line() in attr.c, # can be used to start a comment. This patch add this to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <redacted> --- Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index c892ffa..0a61a71 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt@@ -16,10 +16,16 @@ DESCRIPTION A `gitattributes` file is a simple text file that gives `attributes` to pathnames. -Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form: +Lines in `gitattributes` have one of the following forms: +- A blank line can serve as a separator for readability. + +- A line starting with # serves as a comment. + +- An attribute specification line: ++ pattern attr1 attr2 ... - ++ That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list, separated by whitespaces. When the pattern matches the path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to
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