Merge branch 'mz/push-verbose'

[git.git] / Documentation / gitattributes.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
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--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -307,9 +307,18 @@ backslash, and zero or more occurrences of `sub` followed by
 There are a few built-in patterns to make this easier, and `tex`
 is one of them, so you do not have to write the above in your
 configuration file (you still need to enable this with the
-attribute mechanism, via `.gitattributes`).  Another built-in
-pattern is defined for `java` that defines a pattern suitable
-for program text in Java language.
+attribute mechanism, via `.gitattributes`).  The following built in
+patterns are available:
+
+- `bibtex` suitable for files with BibTeX coded references.
+
+- `java` suitable for source code in the Java lanugage.
+
+- `pascal` suitable for source code in the Pascal/Delphi language.
+
+- `ruby` suitable for source code in the Ruby language.
+
+- `tex` suitable for source code for LaTeX documents.
 
 
 Performing a three-way merge
@@ -450,6 +459,29 @@ String::
        variable.
 
 
+Creating an archive
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+`export-ignore`
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Files and directories with the attribute `export-ignore` won't be added to
+archive files.
+
+`export-subst`
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If the attribute `export-subst` is set for a file then git will expand
+several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.  The
+expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e., if
+linkgit:git-archive[1] has been given a tree instead of a commit or a
+tag then no replacement will be done.  The placeholders are the same
+as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of linkgit:git-log[1],
+except that they need to be wrapped like this: `$Format:PLACEHOLDERS$`
+in the file.  E.g. the string `$Format:%H$` will be replaced by the
+commit hash.
+
+
 EXAMPLE
 -------
 
@@ -499,28 +531,6 @@ frotz      unspecified
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-Creating an archive
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-`export-ignore`
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Files and directories with the attribute `export-ignore` won't be added to
-archive files.
-
-`export-subst`
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-If the attribute `export-subst` is set for a file then git will expand
-several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.  The
-expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e., if
-'git-archive' has been given a tree instead of a commit or a
-tag then no replacement will be done.  The placeholders are the same
-as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of linkgit:git-log[1],
-except that they need to be wrapped like this: `$Format:PLACEHOLDERS$`
-in the file.  E.g. the string `$Format:%H$` will be replaced by the
-commit hash.
-
 
 GIT
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