File attributes

There are some settings and options in Git that can be specified on a per-path basis; similar to how ignoring files (marking files as intentionally untracked) works. These path-specific settings are called attributes.

To specify attributes for files matching a given pattern, you need to add a line with a pattern followed by a whitespace-separated list of attributes to one of the gitattribute files (similarly to how the gitignore files work):

• The per-user file, for attributes that should affect all repositories for a single user, specified by the configuration variable core.attributesFile, by default ~/.config/git/attributes

• The per repository .git/info/attributes file in the administrative area of the local clone of the repository, for attributes that should affect only a single specific clone of the repository (for one user's workflow)

• The .gitattributes files in the working directories of a project, for those attributes that should be shared among developers

The rules for how...