From: Petr Baudis Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:39:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document core.excludesfile for git-add Message-ID: <20070517153921.GQ4489@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070517143542.GB15709@ginosko.local> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:35:44PM CEST, Michael Hendricks wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:31:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Thanks, but wouldn't this belong to Documentation/config.txt > > instead, I wonder? > > It appears to my untrained eye that core.excludesfiles only works for > git-add. It seems to have no effect on git-status and the only code > that mentions core.excludesfile is builtin-add.c I believe the current policy should be that all config options are at least briefly listed in config.txt and possibly are described in more detail in the documentation of relevant command. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett