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| author | Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> | 2012-09-19 00:25:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-18 21:47:45 -0700 |
| commit | 3f8c5a41f10ac35ac362d6e2f125b559d580d3e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ae4470b16df2a4142d5f8a080bb906cde009aee /Documentation/gitignore.txt | |
| parent | bc40deabbce2fec844c57bf933143babe549bce3 (diff) | |
| download | git-3f8c5a41f10ac35ac362d6e2f125b559d580d3e7.tar.gz | |
Doc: separate gitignore pattern sources
Use separate bulleted paragraphs for the three different gitignore
pattern sources.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitignore.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 30 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index c1f692a71e..96639e02bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -41,18 +41,24 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): variable 'core.excludesfile'. Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to -be used. Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to -other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want -to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file. Patterns which are -specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared -with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside -the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into -the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file. Patterns which a user wants git to -ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by -the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by -`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is -$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, -$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. +be used. + + * Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to + other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want + to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file. + + * Patterns which are + specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared + with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside + the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into + the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file. + + * 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 + $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or + empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. The underlying git plumbing tools, such as 'git ls-files' and 'git read-tree', read |