clarify %f documentation

It's natural to expect %f to be an actual file on disk; help avoid that
mistake.

Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: joeyh

Documentation/gitattributes.txt

@@ -374,6 +374,11 @@ substitution.  For example:
 	smudge = git-p4-filter --smudge %f
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+Note that "%f" is the name of the path that is being worked on. Depending
+on the version that is being filtered, the corresponding file on disk may
+not exist, or may have different contents. So, smudge and clean commands
+should not try to access the file on disk, but only act as filters on the
+content provided to them on standard input.
 
 Interaction between checkin/checkout attributes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^