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@@ -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
@@ -927,7 +932,7 @@ 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
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