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
next prev parent 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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