From c314b62553e2abf9055aa58d5e4ed2e5bb8c9f64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20=C3=85gren?= Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:09:16 +0200 Subject: gitignore.txt: change "folder" to "directory" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit We prefer "directory" over "folder" when discussing the file system concept. Change this instance for consistency -- indeed, even within this paragraph, we already use "directory". Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/gitignore.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/gitignore.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index f8a1fc2014..f2738b10db 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ accessed from the index or a tree versus from the filesystem. EXAMPLES -------- - - The pattern `hello.*` matches any file or folder + - The pattern `hello.*` matches any file or directory 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.*`; -- cgit v1.2.3