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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 59321a2e82..98c459dc82 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): * Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the - higher level files (up to the root) being overridden by those in - lower level files down to the directory containing the file. + higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) being overridden + by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the file. These patterns match relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file. A project normally includes such `.gitignore` files in its repository, containing patterns for @@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ 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 -'git-ls-files' and 'git-read-tree', read +'git ls-files' and 'git read-tree', read `gitignore` patterns specified by command-line options, or from files specified by command-line options. Higher-level git -tools, such as 'git-status' and 'git-add', +tools, such as 'git status' and 'git add', use patterns from the sources specified above. Patterns have the following format: |