Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute
The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to some kind of path". This clarifies things. Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jan Krüger committed
Oct 30, 2008 at 19:14 UTC
2c850f1221efd2441c3794e163ea3918ce31c15b
1 file changed
+2
-2
Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+2
-2
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ few exceptions. Even though...
163
`ident`
164
^^^^^^^
165
166
-When the attribute `ident` is set to a path, git replaces
167
-`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by
166
+When the attribute `ident` is set for a path, git replaces
167
+`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by the
168
40-character hexadecimal blob object name, followed by a dollar
169
sign `$` upon checkout. Any byte sequence that begins with
170
`$Id:` and ends with `$` in the worktree file is replaced