Merge branch 'ks/doc-checkout-previous'

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 4c68bc19d5108d1ba0c91b05d35acf8060eb2c9d..30687de81a6e40b3d9cc120f659817b1a8d03603 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -232,8 +232,7 @@ From a clean working directory:
 
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 $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
-$ git read-tree --empty   # Clean index, force re-scan of working directory
-$ git add .
+$ git add --renormalize .
 $ git status        # Show files that will be normalized
 $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"
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@@ -328,6 +327,9 @@ You can declare that a filter turns a content that by itself is unusable
 into a usable content by setting the filter.<driver>.required configuration
 variable to `true`.
 
+Note: Whenever the clean filter is changed, the repo should be renormalized:
+$ git add --renormalize .
+
 For example, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `filter`
 attribute for paths.