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Re: [PATCH 1/6] user-manual: edit "ignoring files" for conciseness

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Aug 26, 2007, 19:57 UTC
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On Sunday 26 August 2007 09:16:57 J. Bruce Fields wrote:
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> From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@puzzle.fieldses.org>
>
> The immediate motivation for writing this section was to explain the
> various places ignore patterns could be used.  However, I still think
> .gitignore is the case most people will want to learn about first.  It
> also makes it a bit more concrete to introduce ignore patterns in the
> context of .gitignore first.  And the existance of gitignore(5) relieves
> the pressure to explain it all here.
>
> So, stick to the .gitignore example, with only a brief mention of the
> others, explain the syntax only by example, and leave the rest to
> gitignore(5).
>
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
> Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-By: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Have fun!
...Johan
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Message 7 of 7 in “user-manual: edit "ignoring files" for conciseness”
  1. 1/6 user-manual: edit "ignoring files" for concisenessJ. Bruce Fields, Aug 26, 2007
  2. 2/6 user-manual: minor editing for concisenessJ. Bruce Fields, Aug 26, 2007
  3. 3/6 user-manual: introduce the word "commit" earlierJ. Bruce Fields, Aug 26, 2007
  4. 4/6 user-manual: use pithier example commitJ. Bruce Fields, Aug 26, 2007
  5. 5/6 user-manual: fix incorrect header levelJ. Bruce Fields, Aug 26, 2007
  6. 6/6 Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix a few omissions of gitlink commands.J. Bruce Fields, Aug 26, 2007
  7. Johan HerlandAug 26, 2007

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