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, separated by a space and followed by a whitespace-separated list of attributes, to one of the .gitattributes files (similar to how .gitignore files work):

• The per-user file, for attributes that should affect all repositories for a single user, specified by the core.attributesFile configuration variable. By default, this is ~/.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 only affect a single specific clone of the repository (for one user’s workflow).
• The .gitattributes files in the working directories of a project, for those...