When setting `.gitattributes` in a second worktree, a plain `rm .git/index`
does not actually delete the index.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <ashei...@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 473648386..2a2d7e2a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ From a clean working directory:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
 $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
-$ rm .git/index     # Remove the index to re-scan the working directory
+$ git read-tree --empty   # Clean index, force re-scan of working directory
 $ git add .
 $ git status        # Show files that will be normalized
 $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"
-- 
2.13.0

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