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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index d47b1ae296..53e7d5c914 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -149,11 +149,15 @@ not tracked by Git remain untracked. To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use 'git rm --cached'. +Git does not follow symbolic links when accessing a `.gitignore` file in +the working tree. This keeps behavior consistent when the file is +accessed from the index or a tree versus from the filesystem. + EXAMPLES -------- - The pattern `hello.*` matches any file or folder - whose name begins with `hello`. If one wants to restrict + whose name begins with `hello.`. If one wants to restrict this only to the directory and not in its subdirectories, one can prepend the pattern with a slash, i.e. `/hello.*`; the pattern now matches `hello.txt`, `hello.c` but not |