gitattributes¶

global attributesfile location¶

Get:

git config --get core.attributesfile

Set:

git config --global core.attributesfile '~/.gitattributes'

Check git attributes:

git check-attr -a --all

Scope¶

single repo, all users:
$GIT_DIR/info/attributes

all repos, single user:
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}/git/attributes

all repos, all users: $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes

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 attributes should be placed in the $GIT_DIR/info/attributes file. Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other 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 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. - man gitattributes