[PATCH] Document core.excludesfile for git-add
From: Michael Hendricks <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:10
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
During the discussion of core.excludesfile in the user-manual, I realized that the configuration wasn't mentioned in the man pages. Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <redacted> --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 27b9c0f..a0c9f68 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ OPTIONS for command-line options). +Configuration +------------- + +The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a +file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to +$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to +those in info/exclude. See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout]. + + EXAMPLES -------- git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
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