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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 8734c1566c..63260f0056 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): * Patterns read from `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. * Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration - variable 'core.excludesfile'. + variable `core.excludesFile`. Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to be used. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ be used. * 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`. Its default value is + `core.excludesFile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ PATTERN FORMAT Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first hash for patterns that begin with a hash. - - Trailing spaces are ignored unless they are quoted with backlash + - Trailing spaces are ignored unless they are quoted with backslash ("`\`"). - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any @@ -138,9 +138,6 @@ NOTES The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files not tracked by Git remain untracked. -To ignore uncommitted changes in a file that is already tracked, -use 'git update-index {litdd}assume-unchanged'. - To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use 'git rm --cached'. @@ -203,7 +200,6 @@ everything within `foo/bar`): SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-rm[1], -linkgit:git-update-index[1], linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5], linkgit:git-check-ignore[1] |