[PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only
From: Andrew Berry <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-02 22:21:00
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The current documentation reads as if .gitignore files will be parsed in every parent directory, and not until they reach a repository boundary. This clarifies the current behaviour. Signed-off-by: Andrew Berry <redacted> --- Documentation/gitignore.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 53e7d5c914..534cda5747 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): them. * Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory - as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the - higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) being overridden - by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the file. - These patterns match relative to the location of the + as the path, or in any parent directory in the same repository, with + patterns in the higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) + being overridden by those in lower level files down to the directory + containing the file. These patterns match relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file. A project normally includes such `.gitignore` files in its repository, containing patterns for files generated as part of the project build.
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