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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-10 14:57:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-10 14:57:02 -0700 |
| commit | 4321fe0b5400861b30503a8663669e96dfac0d50 (patch) | |
| tree | 780b2de5ba5b48cbc4cdab9a0abe0e4860b866bf /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jc/doc-long-options' (diff) | |
| parent | gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning (diff) | |
| download | tgif-4321fe0b5400861b30503a8663669e96dfac0d50.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'nd/doc-ignore'
* nd/doc-ignore:
gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 96639e02bd..1b82fe1969 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -74,11 +74,15 @@ PATTERN FORMAT for readability. - A line starting with # serves as a comment. + Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first hash for patterns + that begin with a hash. - - An optional prefix '!' which negates the pattern; any + - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will override lower precedence patterns sources. + Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns + that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`". - If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the purpose of the following description, but it would only find |