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[PATCH 1/2] gitignore.txt: clarify default core.excludesfile path

From: Todd Zullinger <hidden>
Date: 2018-06-27 04:46:59
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

The default core.excludesfile path is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty or unset,
as described later in the document.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <redacted>
---
 Documentation/gitignore.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index ff5d7f9ed6..d107daaffd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ gitignore - Specifies intentionally untracked files to ignore
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-$HOME/.config/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore
+$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-- 
2.18.0
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