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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index 274908ac7..c7fc1ceb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -388,12 +388,12 @@ directory update. `$GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout` is used to define the skip-worktree reference bitmap. When 'git read-tree' needs to update the working directory, it resets the skip-worktree bit in the index based on this file, which uses the same syntax as .gitignore files. -If an entry matches a pattern in this file, skip-worktree will be -set on that entry. Otherwise, skip-worktree will be unset. +If an entry matches a pattern in this file, skip-worktree will not be +set on that entry. Otherwise, skip-worktree will be set. Then it compares the new skip-worktree value with the previous one. If -skip-worktree turns from unset to set, it will add the corresponding -file back. If it turns from set to unset, that file will be removed. +skip-worktree turns from set to unset, it will add the corresponding +file back. If it turns from unset to set, that file will be removed. While `$GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout` is usually used to specify what files are in, you can also specify what files are _not_ in, using |