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| author | Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | 2023-01-13 05:41:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-01-13 20:55:17 +0100 |
| commit | e750951e74fc3fc2b40a8601b70cdf6e69ec6cf2 (patch) | |
| tree | b876f047c82e5da3246ed7b78ec0d7887a3d6083 /Documentation | |
| parent | ls-files: clarify descriptions of status tags for -t (diff) | |
| download | git-e750951e74fc3fc2b40a8601b70cdf6e69ec6cf2.tar.xz git-e750951e74fc3fc2b40a8601b70cdf6e69ec6cf2.zip | |
ls-files: guide folks to --exclude-standard over other --exclude* options
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 3886d58d17..1abdd3c21c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ OPTIONS --exclude-per-directory=<file>:: Read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the - directory and its subdirectories in <file>. + directory and its subdirectories in <file>. Deprecated; use + --exclude-standard instead. --exclude-standard:: Add the standard Git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore @@ -291,7 +292,9 @@ traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the flags --others or --ignored are specified. linkgit:gitignore[5] specifies the format of exclude patterns. -These exclude patterns come from these places, in order: +Generally, you should just use --exclude-standard, but for historical +reasons the exclude patterns can be specified from the following +places, in order: 1. The command-line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a single pattern. Patterns are ordered in the same order |