remote-hg: add bidirectional tests

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 80120ea14f1ccd2784405c2bf2d54863bb52e8d3..ba02d4de5901b4448411654ecdf76a1b1980e53b 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
@@ -75,6 +80,8 @@ repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into
 `.gitattributes` files. Attributes that should affect all repositories
 for a single user should be placed in a file specified by the
 `core.attributesfile` configuration option (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
+is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
 Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the
 `$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file.
 
@@ -509,6 +516,8 @@ configuration file (you still need to enable this with the
 attribute mechanism, via `.gitattributes`).  The following built in
 patterns are available:
 
+- `ada` suitable for source code in the Ada language.
+
 - `bibtex` suitable for files with BibTeX coded references.
 
 - `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.
@@ -925,7 +934,7 @@ 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
 ------------