Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitignore.txt: Fix the seriously misleading priority explanation

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2007, 06:04 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4pjxt1nk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <85wswtp8va.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

Your rewrite makes "patterns found in deeper file overrides the ones in shallower ones" rule much much easier to read. Thanks.

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