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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: gitList <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] Doc add: link gitignore
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:58:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347793083-4136-7-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (raw)

Include the gitignore link with the paired gitrepository-
layout link.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---

without the gitignore link users are unlikely to realise the
significance of the repository layout link, nor what to look for
within it

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 9c1d395..311be9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ Configuration
 The optional configuration variable `core.excludesfile` indicates a path to a
 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude.  Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
-those in info/exclude.  See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
+those in info/exclude.  See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] and
+linkgit:gitignore[5].
 
 
 EXAMPLES
-- 
1.7.8.msysgit.0

             reply	other threads:[~2012-09-16 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-16 10:58 Philip Oakley [this message]
2012-09-17  5:50 ` [PATCH 6/8] Doc add: link gitignore Junio C Hamano
2012-09-17 22:01   ` Philip Oakley

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