[PATCH] check-ignore: clarify treatment of tracked files
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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
- Date
- Dec 4, 2014, 15:23 UTC
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- <5480777D.6000205@drmicha.warpmail.net>
By default, check-ignore does not list tracked files at all since they are not subject to ignore patterns.
Make this clearer in the man page.
Reported-by: Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> --- That really is a bit confusing. Does this help?
Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index ee2e091..788a011 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier ones. +By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not +subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. + OPTIONS ------- -q, --quiet::
-- 2.2.0.rc3.286.g888a711