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| author | Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> | 2019-03-07 00:25:30 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-03-08 09:12:45 +0900 |
| commit | af91b0230ca9fb204aac04bd713ca0f420c8f8b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b60f3ee3b43ea8ee4189610a548e244e8d4f706 /Documentation/gitignore.txt | |
| parent | 407e7680729945126b414a634365be15075fc3bb (diff) | |
| download | git-af91b0230ca9fb204aac04bd713ca0f420c8f8b1.tar.gz | |
docs: move core.excludesFile from git-add to gitignore
A section in "git add" documentation mentions core.excludesFile and
explains how it works, but this is not specific to the command.
Move this description to gitignore.txt to be more generic.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitignore.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 1c94f08ff4..b5bc9dbff0 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ full pathname may have special meaning: - Other consecutive asterisks are considered regular asterisks and will match according to the previous rules. +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a +file containing patterns of file names to exclude, similar to +`$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to +those in `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. + NOTES ----- |