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<p>When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, Git
consults <code>$GIT_DIR/info/attributes</code> file (which has the highest
precedence), <code>.gitattributes</code> file in the same directory as the
path in question, and its parent directories up to the toplevel of the
work tree (the further the directory that contains <code>.gitattributes</code>
is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally
global and system-wide files are considered (they have the