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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-status.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a7daa08731..c3fc64acc7 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -263,6 +263,11 @@ You probably do not need to adjust this value.
+
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
+core.excludeFile::
+ In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
+ '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
+ of files which are not meant to be tracked.
+
alias.*::
Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index e9e193f008..d7015387b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ mean the same thing and the latter is kept for backward
compatibility) and `color.status.<slot>` configuration variables
to colorize its output.
+As for gitlink:git-add[1], the configuration variable
+'core.excludesfile' can indicate a path to a file containing patterns
+of file names to exclude, in addition to patterns given in
+'info/exclude' and '.gitignore'.
+
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