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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-03-02 23:07:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-03-02 23:07:18 (GMT) |
| commit | cb2f5a8e971bdc4d08dde91c8f16a7464ef94cd8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e31d0e4490723e3466d48bf9c6ce9dcb461ee12 /Documentation | |
| parent | 0df82d99dae85dbd4f667e95020a146ea0167975 (diff) | |
| parent | 7ec8125fba96f47b00bb0cab3ed716557e81e7e6 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'en/check-ignore'
"git check-ignore" did not work when the given path is explicitly
marked as not ignored with a negative entry in the .gitignore file.
* en/check-ignore:
check-ignore: fix documentation and implementation to match
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 8b2d49c..0c3924a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -30,9 +30,15 @@ OPTIONS valid with a single pathname. -v, --verbose:: - Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) - for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and - between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5]. + Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path + that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern + together with the path. (Matching an exclude pattern usually + means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!' + then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is + NOT excluded.) ++ +For precedence rules within and between exclude sources, see +linkgit:gitignore[5]. --stdin:: Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, |