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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index e847b3ba63..613dca006f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): * Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration variable 'core.excludesfile'. +Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to +be used. Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to +other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want +to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file. Patterns which are +specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared +with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside +the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into +the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file. Patterns which a user wants git to +ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by +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 linkgit:git-ls-files[1] and linkgit:git-read-tree[1], read `gitignore` patterns specified by command-line options, or from |