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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2007-07-22 09:33:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2007-07-22 09:33:42 +0000 |
| commit | de9879a91fd7d4d123a303b4bcdc918f43ca3a62 (patch) | |
| tree | 68cb399f1760d4a54ae9ff1f367fea8b6bed9453 /gitignore.txt | |
| parent | f6002a9d88be66b5d7ac79bf312feb0b622791ca (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-de9879a91fd7d4d123a303b4bcdc918f43ca3a62.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.3-rc2-29-gc4640
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diff --git a/gitignore.txt b/gitignore.txt index ea79d74b8..9c8309569 100644 --- a/gitignore.txt +++ b/gitignore.txt @@ -18,21 +18,26 @@ pattern. When deciding whether to ignore a path, git normally checks `gitignore` patterns from multiple sources, with the following -order of precedence: +order of precedence, from highest to lowest (within one level of +precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): - * Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration - variable 'core.excludesfile'. - - * Patterns read from `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. + * Patterns read from the command line for those commands that support + them. * Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory - as the path, or in any parent directory, ordered from the - deepest such file to a file in the root of the repository. + as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the + higher level files (up to the root) being overriden by those in + lower level files down to the directory containing the file. These patterns match relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file. A project normally includes such `.gitignore` files in its repository, containing patterns for files generated as part of the project build. + * Patterns read from `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. + + * Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration + variable 'core.excludesfile'. + The underlying git plumbing tools, such as gitlink:git-ls-files[1] and gitlink:git-read-tree[1], read `gitignore` patterns specified by command-line options, or from @@ -49,7 +54,8 @@ Patterns have the following format: - An optional prefix '!' which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become - included again. + included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will + override lower precedence patterns sources. - If the pattern does not contain a slash '/', git treats it as a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the |