docs: note the type of core.attributesfile

The previous wording:

> Path expansions are made the same way as for `core.excludesFile`.

required one to check the docs for 'core.excludesFile' and from there
the definition of the pathname variable type to understand the path
expansion behaviour of this variable. Instead, just link directly to the
pathname type.

This change is basically the same rewording as was done to
'core.excludesFile' in dca83abd (config: describe 'pathname' value
type, 2016-04-29).

Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.adoc b/Documentation/config/core.adoc
index 11efad1..62b4f5b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/core.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.adoc
@@ -492,10 +492,9 @@ core.askPass::
        command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
 
 core.attributesFile::
-       In addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory) and
-       `.git/info/attributes`, Git looks into this file for attributes
-       (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
-       way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is
+       Specifies the pathname to the file that contains attributes (see
+       linkgit:gitattributes[5]), in addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory)
+       and `.git/info/attributes`. 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.