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| author |  Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> | 2019-03-07 00:25:30 -0800 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-03-08 09:12:45 +0900 |
| commit | af91b0230ca9fb204aac04bd713ca0f420c8f8b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b60f3ee3b43ea8ee4189610a548e244e8d4f706 | |
| parent | git-clean.txt: clarify ignore pattern files (diff) | |
| download | tgif-af91b0230ca9fb204aac04bd713ca0f420c8f8b1.tar.xz | |
docs: move core.excludesFile from git-add to gitignore
A section in "git add" documentation mentions core.excludesFile and
explains how it works, but this is not specific to the command.
Move this description to gitignore.txt to be more generic.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-add.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 37bcab94d5..8b0e4c7fa8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -193,15 +193,6 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files. for command-line options). -CONFIGURATION -------------- - -The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a -file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to -$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to -those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitignore[5]. - - EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 1c94f08ff4..b5bc9dbff0 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ full pathname may have special meaning: - Other consecutive asterisks are considered regular asterisks and will match according to the previous rules. +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a +file containing patterns of file names to exclude, similar to +`$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to +those in `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. + NOTES ----- |