From e78e6967f3f3f28fd66c1dfe52544788e0cd0236 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:58:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gitattributes: document more clearly where macros are allowed

The old text made it sound like macros are only allowed in the
.gitattributes file at the top-level of the working tree.  Make it
clear that they are also allowed in $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and in
the global and system-wide gitattributes files.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index b322a2666c..643c1ba929 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -930,9 +930,12 @@ state.
 DEFINING MACRO ATTRIBUTES
 -------------------------
 
-Custom macro attributes can be defined only in the `.gitattributes`
-file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory).  The built-in
-macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to:
+Custom macro attributes can be defined only in top-level gitattributes
+files (`$GIT_DIR/info/attributes`, the `.gitattributes` file at the
+top level of the working tree, or the global or system-wide
+gitattributes files), not in `.gitattributes` files in working tree
+subdirectories.  The built-in macro attribute "binary" is equivalent
+to:
 
 ------------
 [attr]binary -diff -merge -text
-- 
2.40.0