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| author |  Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> | 2015-11-20 21:30:48 +0100 |
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| committer |  Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2015-11-24 17:13:36 -0500 |
| commit | 219cbf091a3d2e2e0a9bb82ba7c297eb5da413a3 (patch) | |
| tree | f026b2006967959d160aecc5b583d8117e6f8c95 | |
| parent | Git 2.6.3 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-219cbf091a3d2e2e0a9bb82ba7c297eb5da413a3.tar.xz | |
check-ignore: correct documentation about output
By default git check-ignore shows only the filenames that will be
ignored, not the pattern that causes their exclusion. Instead of moving
the partial exclude pattern precendence information to the -v option
where it belongs, link to gitignore(5) which describes this more
thoroughly.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 59531abba4..e94367a5ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via -`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to -the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or -included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier -ones. +`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other +input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is +excluded. By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. @@ -32,7 +31,8 @@ OPTIONS -v, --verbose:: Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) - for each given pathname. + for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and + between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5]. --stdin:: Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, |