From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 21:43:03 +0000 (-0700) Subject: attr.tree: HEAD:.gitattributes is no longer the default in a bare repo X-Git-Tag: v2.45.3~8^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5c71d6b63ac107a1c0f6e6a3f53f2b8371516292;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git attr.tree: HEAD:.gitattributes is no longer the default in a bare repo 51441e64 (stop using HEAD for attributes in bare repository by default, 2024-05-03) has addressed a recent performance regression by partially reverting a topic that was merged at 26dd307c (Merge branch 'jc/attr-tree-config', 2023-10-30). But it forgot to update the documentation to remove the mention of a special case in bare repositories. Let's update the document before the update hits the next release. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/config/attr.txt b/Documentation/config/attr.txt index 1a482d6af2..c4a5857993 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/attr.txt @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ attr.tree:: A reference to a tree in the repository from which to read attributes, - instead of the `.gitattributes` file in the working tree. In a bare - repository, this defaults to `HEAD:.gitattributes`. If the value does - not resolve to a valid tree object, an empty tree is used instead. + instead of the `.gitattributes` file in the working tree. If the value + does not resolve to a valid tree object, an empty tree is used instead. When the `GIT_ATTR_SOURCE` environment variable or `--attr-source` command line option are used, this configuration variable has no effect.