Add comments/remarks to .gitattributes

Question

Is it possible to add comments or remarks to a .gitattributes file?

If yes, how exactly do comment lines look like?

Sori

Answer 1

# This is a comment!

in .gitattributes.

Duma

Thanks. Is this documented somewhere? I couldn't find it. – Sori

A line starting with # serves as a comment. Put a backslash ("\") in front of the first hash for patterns that begin with a hash. From: git-scm.com/docs/gitignore – Duma

@Duma That's gitignore not gitattributes – Ethaethan

Answer 2

Documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes :

That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list, separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are ignored. Lines that begin with # are ignored. Patterns that begin with a double quote are quoted in C style. When the pattern matches the path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to the path.

Rasheedarasher