From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:36:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check-ignore: fix handling with negated patterns
Message-ID: <xmqq7e0idztk.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHaTK62W4_rUaJXNUPSfu9cBD5MrmjgbJeMuA+7s3+rGg@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> No, it is not more like that; the check-ignore manpage currently claims this:
>
>        For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
> --stdin, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or
>        other input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path
> if it is excluded.

Thanks.  I wasn't paying attention to what happened to the manpage
(or to the command for that matter) after I wrote it as a debugging
aid X-<.

The updated version looked reasonable to me.  Thanks.