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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index a29c633c8d..4d8a2ad2d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ An exclude pattern is of the following format: - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob pattern and used to match against the filename without - leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current - implementation). + leading directories. - otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag. I.e. a @@ -222,6 +221,19 @@ An example: --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore -------------------------------------------------------------- +Another example: + +-------------------------------------------------------------- + $ cat .gitignore + vmlinux* + $ ls arch/foo/kernel/vm* + arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S + $ echo '!/vmlinux*' >arch/foo/kernel/.gitignore +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +The second .gitignore keeps `arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S` file +from getting ignored. + See Also -------- |