Re: [PATCH 1/1] git-clean.txt: specify core.excludesFile variable is used

Martin Ågren [off-list ref] writes:

But on the topic of preferring shorter, I sort of wonder if we really
need to provide all of those filenames here. The point we're trying to
make is that we consider another source. So something like this would be
just as technically correct, I think:

  Use the given exclude pattern in addition to those found in .gitignore
  and similar files (see linkgit:gitignore[5]).

Yes.  Unless we devise some mechanism to prevent these text that
list the places exclusion list are read from spread across the
documentation set, saying "found in usual places (see $there)" and
making sure we have the authoritative single place up-to-date is a
good approach.