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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

             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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