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[PATCH] Ignore all man sections.

From
Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Apr 24, 2007, 00:02 UTC
Message-ID
<20070424000234.GA833@Hermes.local>
In-Reply-To
<462D4733.3000901@zytor.com>

We added gitattributes(5), which should now be ignored. While we're at it, ignore all man sections 1-8.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
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On Apr 23, 2007, at 7:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> Brian Gernhardt wrote:
>> We now have a gitattributes(5) file, so let git ignore that just like
>> all the other man pages.
>> Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
>
> We can't just add *.[1-8] to the list?
> 
> 	-hpa
Indeed we can.  But that would make sense.
 Documentation/.gitignore |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore
index b98d21e..a37b215 100644
--- a/Documentation/.gitignore
+++ b/Documentation/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 *.xml
 *.html
-*.1
-*.7
+*.[1-8]
 *.made
 howto-index.txt
 doc.dep
-- 
1.5.2.rc0.1.g2cc31
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  2. H. Peter AnvinApr 23, 2007
  3. Ignore all man sections.Brian Gernhardt, Apr 24, 2007

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