sequencer.c: teach append_signoff how to detect duplicate s-o-b

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index c693bfb49738c1c488574879adf3fcb0d310b450..2698f63cf9b492deb32b09e2a60c59f500c47f5c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ When more than one pattern matches the path, a later line
 overrides an earlier line.  This overriding is done per
 attribute.  The rules how the pattern matches paths are the
 same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].
+Unlike `.gitignore`, negative patterns are forbidden.
 
 When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, git
 consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest
@@ -66,6 +67,11 @@ 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
@@ -929,7 +935,7 @@ 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
 ------------