# [PATCH] documentation about exclude/ignore files 3 messages from 2006-07-12 to 2006-07-13. Participants: Matthias Lederhofer, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4862 ## Matthias Lederhofer, 2006-07-12 19:54 Subject: [PATCH] documentation about exclude/ignore files Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E1G0knL-0007PL-86%40moooo.ath.cx ``` --- Use .git/info/exclude in the example in git-ls-files.txt as .gitignore is used there and update the list of commands looking at .git/info/exclude in repository-layout.txt. --- Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/repository-layout.txt | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 4d8a2ad..8520b97 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ An exclude pattern is of the following f An example: -------------------------------------------------------------- - $ cat .git/ignore + $ cat .git/info/exclude # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree. *.[oa] $ cat Documentation/.gitignore @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ An example: !foo.html $ git-ls-files --ignored \ --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \ - --exclude-from=.git/ignore \ + --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude \ --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore -------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt index b52dfdc..275d18b 100644 --- a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt @@ -120,9 +120,11 @@ info/grafts:: info/exclude:: This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the - exclude pattern list. `git status` looks at it, but - otherwise it is not looked at by any of the core git - commands. + exclude pattern list. `.gitignore` is the per-directory + ignore file. `git status`, `git add`, `git rm` and `git + clean` look at it but the core git commands do not look + at it. See also: gitlink:git-ls-files[1] `--exclude-from` + and `--exclude-per-directory`. remotes:: Stores shorthands to be used to give URL and default -- 1.4.1.gb16f ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2006-07-13 04:40 Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation about exclude/ignore files Message-ID: <7vy7uyw206.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vy7uyw206.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: ``` Matthias Lederhofer writes: > --- > Use .git/info/exclude in the example in git-ls-files.txt as .gitignore > is used there and update the list of commands looking at > .git/info/exclude in repository-layout.txt. > > --- > Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 4 ++-- > Documentation/repository-layout.txt | 8 +++++--- > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Why do you start the message with three dashes that says "the below will _not_ go to the commit log message"? The changes look good. Please sign your patches. ``` ## Matthias Lederhofer, 2006-07-13 07:49 Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation about exclude/ignore files Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E1G0vwo-0007IB-46%40moooo.ath.cx In-Reply-To: <7vy7uyw206.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> ``` Junio C Hamano wrote: > Why do you start the message with three dashes that says "the > below will _not_ go to the commit log message"? I was not sure if this comment should really go into the commit message. > The changes look good. Please sign your patches. Argh, I just keep forgetting this, sorry. ```