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Refer to 'paths' not 'files'. exit with non-zero if the hook fails in docs.

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@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ You may already have these files in the `.githooks/` directory, since they may h
If you already have those files, you only need to add the syntax to run the `gitattributesdb` script to each of those hook files.
Add the following in an appropriate place in those 3 files:
```
.githooks/gitattributesdb/gitattributesdb "${0##*/}"
.githooks/gitattributesdb/gitattributesdb "${0##*/}" || exit $?
```
If those files do not already exist, you need to create and activate them:
@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ each file:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Store/restore the attributes of files:
.githooks/gitattributesdb/gitattributesdb "${0##*/}"
.githooks/gitattributesdb/gitattributesdb "${0##*/}" || exit $?
```
Save the changes to each file.
@ -116,17 +116,17 @@ to be checked into your repository with the next commit.
Tracking Extra Files
--------------------
`gitattributesdb` has the ability to store/restore the attributes of extra files on the filesystem that are **not** tracked in the git repository.
`gitattributesdb` has the ability to store/restore the attributes of extra paths on the filesystem that are **not** tracked in the git repository.
This is useful, for example, to track the attributes of `/etc/shadow`, without checking that file itself into git (and thus storing sensitive data in a
potentially publicly accessible git repository).
To achieve this, the path to the file (relative to the root of the git repository) must be added to a special file, `.gitattributesdb-extra`, which should
be placed in the root of the repository.
To achieve this, the path (relative to the root of the git repository) must be added to a special file, `.gitattributesdb-extra`, which should be placed
in the root of the repository.
To add files to the "extra" files database, use:
To add paths to the "extra" files database, use:
```
printf "%s" "<filename>" | base64 -w 0 >>.gitattributesdb-extra
{ printf "%s" <path> | base64 -w 0; printf "\\n"; } >>.gitattributesdb-extra
```
Where `<filename>` is a file relative to the repository root.