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Fix syntax for linguist-generated attribute usage
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Expand Up @@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ Use a _.gitattributes_ file to mark files that match a given "pattern" with the

For example, to mark `search/index.json` as a generated file, add this line to _.gitattributes_:

```text
search/index.json linguist-generated=true
```gitattributes
search/index.json linguist-generated
```

To unmark a file that would generally be considered _generated_, add this line to _.gitattributes_:
```gitattributes
bootstrap.min.css -linguist-generated
```

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