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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-03-27 13:35:18 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-03-27 13:35:18 -0700
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: Update draft release notes for 1.5.4.5 Documentation: clarify use of .git{ignore,attributes} versus .git/info/* t/t3800-mktag.sh: use test_must_fail rather than '!' Conflicts: t/t3800-mktag.sh
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* Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration
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`.
+
The underlying git plumbing tools, such as
linkgit:git-ls-files[1] and linkgit:git-read-tree[1], read
`gitignore` patterns specified by command-line options, or from