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[PATCH 6/8] Doc add: link gitignore

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Sep 16, 2012, 10:58 UTC
Message-ID
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Include the gitignore link with the paired gitrepository- layout link.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---

without the gitignore link users are unlikely to realise the significance of the repository layout link, nor what to look for within it

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 9c1d395..311be9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ 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 linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
+those in info/exclude.  See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] and
+linkgit:gitignore[5].
 
 
 EXAMPLES

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1.7.8.msysgit.0
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