diff options
| author | Manav Rathi <mnvrth@gmail.com> | 2017-09-25 13:39:00 +0530 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-09-25 17:54:36 +0900 |
| commit | 93dbefb389a011c9107a3908fd38e743055be267 (patch) | |
| tree | d25857fead15bb1130e89139849c3593a1eb32e0 /Documentation/glossary-content.txt | |
| parent | 7234152e66e52c7601789f6de822bb39590f0595 (diff) | |
| download | git-93dbefb389a011c9107a3908fd38e743055be267.tar.gz | |
docs: improve discoverability of exclude pathspec
The ability to exclude paths with a negative pathspec is not mentioned
in the man pages for git grep and other commands where it might be
useful.
Add an example and a pointer to the pathspec glossary entry in the man
page for git grep to help the user to discover this ability.
Add similar pointers from the git-add and git-status man pages.
Additionally,
- Add a test for the behaviour when multiple exclusions are present.
- Add a test for the ^ alias.
- Improve name of existing test.
- Improve grammar in glossary description of the exclude pathspec.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Manav Rathi <mnvrth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/glossary-content.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 6e991c2469..39a6931b9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ these forms: exclude;; After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run - through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!` or its + through all exclude pathspecs (magic signature: `!` or its synonym `^`). If it matches, the path is ignored. When there is no non-exclude pathspec, the exclusion is applied to the result set as if invoked without any pathspec. |