[PATCH 3/6] doc: clarify ignore rules for git ls-files
From: Andreas Heiduk <hidden>
Date: 2018-04-10 18:34:11
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Explain that `git ls-files --ignored` requires at least one of the `--exclude*` options to do its job. Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <redacted> --- Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 3ac3e3a77d..f3474b2ede 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ OPTIONS Show only ignored files in the output. When showing files in the index, print only those matched by an exclude pattern. When showing "other" files, show only those matched by an exclude - pattern. + pattern. Standard ignore rules are not automatically activated, + therefore at least one of the `--exclude*` options is required. -s:: --stage::
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