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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: alex@bellandwhistle.net
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:45:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140416234555.GA4309@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dee7ee673c8c4d81fb5aaecea25e9709@bellandwhistle.net>

Hi,

alex@bellandwhistle.net wrote:

> In particular, 'exclude' is spottily documented.

Where did you expect to read about it?  I see some mention of
.git/info/exclude in the gitignore(5) page, but I wouldn't be
surprised if there's room for improvement there (improvements
welcome).

>                                                  I realize the docs
> are structured strictly as an API reference,

No, the docs are meant to be helpful, not just to confirm what people
already know. ;-)

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-16 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-16 16:33 gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged? alex
2014-04-16 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-16 23:07   ` alex
2014-04-16 23:45     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2014-04-18  0:36       ` alex
2014-04-22  0:40         ` Andrew Ardill
2014-04-22 17:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-25 23:09             ` alex
2014-04-26  7:52               ` luc.linux
2014-04-26 12:26             ` Zé

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