diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line

diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
index abe1f1b7ddb4e47ac6c9ba327cb6f2c7e2b5fc9e..043274b1b71cb9fbced92fabca16acc4453f6458 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-check-attr(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information.
+git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -22,6 +22,56 @@ OPTIONS
        arguments as path names. If not supplied, only the first argument will
        be treated as an attribute.
 
+OUTPUT
+------
+
+The output is of the form:
+<path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF
+
+Where <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute
+being queried and <info> can be either:
+
+'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path.
+'unset';;      when the attribute is defined to false.
+'set';;                when the attribute is defined to true.
+<value>;;      when a value has been assigned to the attribute.
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used:
+---------------
+*.java diff=java -crlf myAttr
+NoMyAttr.java !myAttr
+README caveat=unspecified
+---------------
+
+* Listing a single attribute:
+---------------
+$ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java
+org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
+---------------
+
+* Listing multiple attributes for a file:
+---------------
+$ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java
+org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset
+org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
+org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
+---------------
+
+* Listing attribute for multiple files:
+---------------
+$ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java
+org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
+org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified
+---------------
+
+* Not all values are equally unambiguous:
+---------------
+$ git check-attr caveat README
+README: caveat: unspecified
+---------------
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
@@ -30,7 +80,7 @@ linkgit:gitattributes[5].
 
 Author
 ------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
 
 Documentation
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