Merge branch 'jk/autocrlf-overrides-eol-doc'

Documentation around core.crlf has been updated.

* jk/autocrlf-overrides-eol-doc:
docs/config: clarify "text property" in core.eol
doc/gitattributes: clarify "autocrlf overrides eol"

diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt
index d0e6635fe0b56b87826240bc80cfef40b722bef4..7e9b6c8f4c2d36116be6699c0dc822222393dae6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/core.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt
@@ -121,11 +121,14 @@ core.quotePath::
 
 core.eol::
        Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
-       files that have the `text` property set when core.autocrlf is false.
+       files that are marked as text (either by having the `text`
+       attribute set, or by having `text=auto` and Git auto-detecting
+       the contents as text).
        Alternatives are 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's
        native line ending.  The default value is `native`.  See
        linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line
-       conversion.
+       conversion. Note that this value is ignored if `core.autocrlf`
+       is set to `true` or `input`.
 
 core.safecrlf::
        If true, makes Git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index a2310fb920ecf64cacf6617c97383bbc4443a03c..9b41f81c06ef9fd2386b0e424d4d62cb27195ae3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ text file is normalized, its line endings are converted to LF in the
 repository.  To control what line ending style is used in the working
 directory, use the `eol` attribute for a single file and the
 `core.eol` configuration variable for all text files.
-Note that `core.autocrlf` overrides `core.eol`
+Note that setting `core.autocrlf` to `true` or `input` overrides
+`core.eol` (see the definitions of those options in
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
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