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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2015-12-01 17:21:31 -0500
committerJeff King <peff@peff.net>2015-12-01 17:21:32 -0500
commit35f263545ce853cd3e250a67cdb3c77534343239 (patch)
treec25d6ab04f8af259aa940e73c5004693aadddbc5
parent5b228f956a8f7ec5127adf9e9368220d7e5d9a5e (diff)
parent219cbf091a3d2e2e0a9bb82ba7c297eb5da413a3 (diff)
downloadgit-35f263545ce853cd3e250a67cdb3c77534343239.tar.gz
Merge branch 'dk/check-ignore-docs' into maint
Documentation clarification for "check-ignore" without "--verbose". * dk/check-ignore-docs: check-ignore: correct documentation about output
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index 59531abba4..e94367a5ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
-`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to
-the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or
-included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier
-ones.
+`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other
+input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is
+excluded.
By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not
subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'.
@@ -32,7 +31,8 @@ OPTIONS
-v, --verbose::
Also output details about the matching pattern (if any)
- for each given pathname.
+ for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and
+ between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5].
--stdin::
Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line,