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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2010-11-10 12:57:39 -0600
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-11-11 10:54:57 -0800
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Documentation: split gitignore page into sections
A learner-by-example might want to look at the examples section first. Help her out by supplying some section headings: PATTERN FORMAT for the format of lines in an excludes file and EXAMPLES for the two examples. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
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@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ files specified by command-line options. Higher-level git
tools, such as 'git status' and 'git add',
use patterns from the sources specified above.
-Patterns have the following format:
+PATTERN FORMAT
+--------------
- A blank line matches no files, so it can serve as a separator
for readability.
@@ -98,7 +99,8 @@ Patterns have the following format:
For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
"mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
-An example:
+EXAMPLES
+--------
--------------------------------------------------------------
$ git status