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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-10-03 15:42:50 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-10-03 15:42:50 +0900
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Merge branch 'mr/doc-negative-pathspec'
Doc updates. * mr/doc-negative-pathspec: docs: improve discoverability of exclude pathspec
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@@ -289,6 +289,9 @@ providing this option will cause it to die.
<pathspec>...::
If given, limit the search to paths matching at least one pattern.
Both leading paths match and glob(7) patterns are supported.
++
+For more details about the <pathspec> syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry
+in linkgit:gitglossary[7].
Examples
--------
@@ -305,6 +308,9 @@ Examples
Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in
files that have lines that match both.
+`git grep solution -- :^Documentation`::
+ Looks for `solution`, excluding files in `Documentation`.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite