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diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index ee2e091704..e94367a5ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -10,16 +10,18 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git check-ignore' [options] pathname... -'git check-ignore' [options] --stdin < <list-of-paths> +'git check-ignore' [options] --stdin DESCRIPTION ----------- For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via -`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to -the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or -included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier -ones. +`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other +input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is +excluded. + +By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not +subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. OPTIONS ------- @@ -29,10 +31,12 @@ OPTIONS -v, --verbose:: Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) - for each given pathname. + for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and + between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5]. --stdin:: - Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. + Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, + instead of from the command-line. -z:: The output format is modified to be machine-parseable (see @@ -69,7 +73,7 @@ matching pattern, <source> is the pattern's source file, and <linenum> is the line number of the pattern within that source. If the pattern contained a `!` prefix or `/` suffix, it will be preserved in the output. <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file -configured by `core.excludesfile`, or relative to the repository root +configured by `core.excludesFile`, or relative to the repository root when referring to `.git/info/exclude` or a per-directory exclude file. If `-z` is specified, the pathnames in the output are delimited by the |