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@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ OPTIONS
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 link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
+
+
EXAMPLES
--------
git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::