From: Johan Herland Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:57:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] user-manual: edit "ignoring files" for conciseness Message-ID: <200708261257.24338.johan@herland.net> In-Reply-To: <11881450231606-git-send-email-> On Sunday 26 August 2007 09:16:57 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > From: J. Bruce Fields > > 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 > Cc: Johan Herland Acked-By: Johan Herland Have fun! ...Johan