gitattributes: Clarify discussion of attribute macros

In particular, make it clear that attribute macros are themselves
recorded as attributes in addition to setting other attributes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/gitattributes.txt

@@ -879,16 +879,19 @@ produced for, any binary file you track.  You would need to specify e.g.
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 but that may become cumbersome, when you have many attributes.  Using
-attribute macros, you can specify groups of attributes set or unset at
+attribute macros, you can define an attribute that, when set, also
-the same time.  The system knows a built-in attribute macro, `binary`:
+sets or unsets a number of other attributes at the same time.  The
+system knows a built-in attribute macro, `binary`:
 
 ------------
 *.jpg binary
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-which is equivalent to the above.  Note that the attribute macros can only
+Setting the "binary" attribute also unsets the "text" and "diff"
-be "Set" (see the above example that sets "binary" macro as if it were an
+attributes as above.  Note that attribute macros can only be "Set",
-ordinary attribute --- setting it in turn unsets "text" and "diff").
+though setting one might have the effect of setting or unsetting other
+attributes or even returning other attributes to the "Unspecified"
+state.
 
 
 DEFINING ATTRIBUTE MACROS