From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:45:55 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?
Message-ID: <20140416234555.GA4309@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <dee7ee673c8c4d81fb5aaecea25e9709@bellandwhistle.net>

Hi,

alex@bellandwhistle.net wrote:

> In particular, 'exclude' is spottily documented.

Where did you expect to read about it?  I see some mention of
.git/info/exclude in the gitignore(5) page, but I wouldn't be
surprised if there's room for improvement there (improvements
welcome).

>                                                  I realize the docs
> are structured strictly as an API reference,

No, the docs are meant to be helpful, not just to confirm what people
already know. ;-)

Thanks,
Jonathan