[PATCH] Document core.excludesfile for git-add

From: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Date: May 17, 2007, 05:08 UTC
Message-ID: <1179378530822-git-send-email-michael@ndrix.org>

During the discussion of core.excludesfile in the user-manual, I realized that the configuration wasn't mentioned in the man pages.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
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 Documentation/git-add.txt |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 27b9c0f..a0c9f68 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ OPTIONS
 	for command-line options).
 
 
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
+file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
+$GIT_DIR/info/exclude.  Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
+those in info/exclude.  See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
+
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::

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