Merge branch 'rr/git-uri-doc' into maint

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index e16f3e175bd8915d139961c649be209b0afc535f..52ab93d2c286d1f91fde8f14eaf6c3742443dcf2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally
 global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest
 precedence).
 
+When the `.gitattributes` file is missing from the work tree, the
+path in the index is used as a fall-back.  During checkout process,
+`.gitattributes` in the index is used and then the file in the
+working tree is used as a fall-back.
+
 If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign
 attributes to files that are particular to
 one user's workflow for that repository), then
@@ -927,7 +932,7 @@ file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory).  The built-in
 macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to:
 
 ------------
-[attr]binary -diff -text
+[attr]binary -diff -merge -text
 ------------