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[PATCH 2/3] gitignore.txt: change "folder" to "directory"

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MÅMartin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 24, 2021, 17:09 UTC
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We prefer "directory" over "folder" when discussing the file system concept. Change this instance for consistency -- indeed, even within this paragraph, we already use "directory".

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/gitignore.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index f8a1fc2014..f2738b10db 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ accessed from the index or a tree versus from the filesystem.
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
- - The pattern `hello.*` matches any file or folder
+ - The pattern `hello.*` matches any file or directory
    whose name begins with `hello.`. If one wants to restrict
    this only to the directory and not in its subdirectories,
    one can prepend the pattern with a slash, i.e. `/hello.*`;
-- 
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  3. 2/3 gitignore.txt: change "folder" to "directory"Martin Ågren, Oct 24, 2021
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