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| author | Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> | 2006-07-12 21:54:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-07-13 21:52:42 -0700 |
| commit | ff4d78041e85d1eddb17f2eee497e29aaeee4564 (patch) | |
| tree | 204bb6aa9120b28a958a8c0bca3e0533f6aff76a /Documentation | |
| parent | a5262768e1e4af96bbca60ee712e97105f80de24 (diff) | |
| download | git-ff4d78041e85d1eddb17f2eee497e29aaeee4564.tar.gz git-ff4d78041e85d1eddb17f2eee497e29aaeee4564.tar.xz | |
Documentation about exclude/ignore files
Use .git/info/exclude in the example in git-ls-files.txt,
instead of .git/ignore, and update the list of commands looking
at .git/info/exclude in repository-layout.txt.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/repository-layout.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 4d8a2ad2d..8520b9711 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ An exclude pattern is of the following format: An example: -------------------------------------------------------------- - $ cat .git/ignore + $ cat .git/info/exclude # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree. *.[oa] $ cat Documentation/.gitignore @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ An example: !foo.html $ git-ls-files --ignored \ --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \ - --exclude-from=.git/ignore \ + --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude \ --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore -------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt index b52dfdc30..275d18bb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt @@ -120,9 +120,11 @@ info/grafts:: info/exclude:: This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the - exclude pattern list. `git status` looks at it, but - otherwise it is not looked at by any of the core git - commands. + exclude pattern list. `.gitignore` is the per-directory + ignore file. `git status`, `git add`, `git rm` and `git + clean` look at it but the core git commands do not look + at it. See also: gitlink:git-ls-files[1] `--exclude-from` + and `--exclude-per-directory`. remotes:: Stores shorthands to be used to give URL and default |