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authorLibravatar Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>2019-03-07 00:25:30 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-03-08 09:12:45 +0900
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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>
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@@ -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
-----