From: Martin Ågren Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:09:16 GMT Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gitignore.txt: change "folder" to "directory" Message-ID: <4f3ba7fbce97fe74821664c80758ee9781c491c0.1635094161.git.martin.agren@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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 --- 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.*`; -- 2.33.1.711.g9d530dc002