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