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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-07-08 18:55:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-07-08 18:55:50 -0700 |
| commit | 037c43c68e220739e690540de89a6d5835fefe73 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e201f833fc63e48db6983e45ce2425d884408db /Documentation/gitignore.txt | |
| parent | Fix "read-tree -m A B" priming the cache-tree (diff) | |
| parent | Git 1.7.2-rc2 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-037c43c68e220739e690540de89a6d5835fefe73.tar.xz | |
Merge remote branch 'ko/master' into jc/read-tree-cache-tree-fix
* ko/master: (2325 commits)
Git 1.7.2-rc2
backmerge a few more fixes to 1.7.1.X series
fix git branch -m in presence of cross devices
t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIX
add missing && to submodule-merge testcase
t/README: document more test helpers
test-date: fix sscanf type conversion
xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.
gitweb: Move evaluate_gitweb_config out of run_request
parse_date: fix signedness in timezone calculation
t0006: test timezone parsing
rerere.txt: Document forget subcommand
t/README: proposed rewording...
t/README: Document the do's and don'ts of tests
t/README: Add a section about skipping tests
t/README: Document test_expect_code
t/README: Document test_external*
t/README: Document the prereq functions, and 3-arg test_*
t/README: Typo: paralell -> parallel
t/README: The trash is in 't/trash directory.$name'
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Conflicts:
builtin-read-tree.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitignore.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 7df3cef46f..e10fa88b8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by `core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. The underlying git plumbing tools, such as -'git-ls-files' and 'git-read-tree', read +'git ls-files' and 'git read-tree', read `gitignore` patterns specified by command-line options, or from files specified by command-line options. Higher-level git -tools, such as 'git-status' and 'git-add', +tools, such as 'git status' and 'git add', use patterns from the sources specified above. Patterns have the following format: @@ -83,16 +83,20 @@ Patterns have the following format: - If the pattern does not contain a slash '/', git treats it as a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the - pathname without leading directories. + pathname relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file + (relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a + `.gitignore` file). - Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname. For example, "Documentation/\*.html" matches - "Documentation/git.html" but not - "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html". A leading slash matches the - beginning of the pathname; for example, "/*.c" matches - "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c". + "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" + or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html". + + - A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. + For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not + "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c". An example: |