From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] check-ignore: correct documentation about output
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 21:10:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151108201036.GA28434@spirit> (raw)
By default git check-ignore shows only the filenames that will be
ignored, not the pattern that causes their exclusion.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
---
Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index 59531ab..0a628ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
-`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to
-the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or
-included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier
-ones.
+`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other
+input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is
+excluded.
By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not
subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'.
--
2.6.3-495-gf0a7f49
--
Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
http://twitter.com/seveas
next reply other threads:[~2015-11-08 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-08 20:10 Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]
2015-11-16 14:13 ` [PATCH] check-ignore: correct documentation about output Dennis Kaarsemaker
2015-11-17 0:22 ` Stefan Beller
2015-11-17 22:37 ` Jeff King
2015-11-20 11:31 ` Jeff King
2015-11-20 20:29 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2015-11-20 20:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Dennis Kaarsemaker
2015-11-24 22:13 ` Jeff King
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