From 27234a2ef3815050f7df5bf6ad356580f845a3ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael J Gruber Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:23:05 +0100 Subject: check-ignore: clarify treatment of tracked files By default, check-ignore does not list tracked files at all since they are not subject to ignore patterns. Make this clearer in the man page. Reported-by: Guilherme Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index ee2e091704..788a011580 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier ones. +By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not +subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. + OPTIONS ------- -q, --quiet:: -- cgit v1.2.1