[PATCH] Clarified documentation of --exclude-per-directory.
- From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
- Date
- Sep 25, 2006, 15:58 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20060925155821.GC26844@spearce.org>
Tommi Virtanen noted on #git today that
git ls-files --exclude-per-directory
doesn't appear to work as advertised by the documentation unless --others is also used. According to the current source code this is the case as the --exclude-per-directory file isn't read unless we are iterating over the working directory, which only happens with --others.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> --- Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 8520b97..2a0b9f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ OPTIONS --exclude-per-directory=<file>:: read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the - directory and its subdirectories in <file>. + directory and its subdirectories in <file>. This option + only takes effect if -o or --others is also used. --error-unmatch:: If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an @@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ time. They are built and ordered in the * lines read from --exclude-from=<file>; patterns are ordered in the same order as they appear in the file. - * When --exclude-per-directory=<name> is specified, upon + * When --exclude-per-directory=<name> and --others is specified, upon entering a directory that has such a file, its contents are appended at the end of the current "list of patterns". They are popped off when leaving the directory.
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