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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 98c459dc82..e10fa88b8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -83,16 +83,20 @@ Patterns have the following format: - If the pattern does not contain a slash '/', git treats it as a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the - pathname without leading directories. + pathname relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file + (relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a + `.gitignore` file). - Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname. For example, "Documentation/\*.html" matches - "Documentation/git.html" but not - "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html". A leading slash matches the - beginning of the pathname; for example, "/*.c" matches - "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c". + "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" + or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html". + + - A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. + For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not + "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c". An example: |