[PATCH v2] docs: note the type of core.attributesfile
From: Matthew Hughes <hidden>
Date: 2025-12-17 19:59:59
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The previous wording:
Path expansions are made the same way as for `core.excludesFile`.
required one to check the docs for 'core.excludesFile' and from there the definition of the pathname variable type to understand the path expansion behaviour of this variable. Instead, just link directly to the pathname type. This change is basically the same rewording as was done to 'core.excludesFile' in dca83abde2 (config: describe 'pathname' value type). Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes <redacted> --- Documentation/config/core.adoc | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.adoc b/Documentation/config/core.adoc
index 01202da7cd..9bc9de29d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/core.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.adoc@@ -492,10 +492,9 @@ core.askPass:: command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT. 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`. Its default value is + Specifies the pathname to the file that contains attributes (see + linkgit:gitattributes[5]), in addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory) + and `.git/info/attributes`. 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.
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