From: Michael J Gruber Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:23:05 GMT Subject: [PATCH] check-ignore: clarify treatment of tracked files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <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 Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber --- 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