Merge branch 'jk/maint-config-param'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-clean.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index a81cb6c28050e83778f11f2957d3489f50fa6004..974e04ef1abaf4a3018b83b0323a46cbaa5339d4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
+'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ OPTIONS
        Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are
        successfully removed.
 
+-e <pattern>::
+--exclude=<pattern>::
+       Specify special exceptions to not be cleaned.  Each <pattern> is
+       the same form as in $GIT_DIR/info/excludes and this option can be
+       given multiple times.
+
 -x::
        Don't use the ignore rules.  This allows removing all untracked
        files, including build products.  This can be used (possibly in
@@ -55,12 +61,6 @@ OPTIONS
        Remove only files ignored by git.  This may be useful to rebuild
        everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite