Documentation about exclude/ignore files

Use .git/info/exclude in the example in git-ls-files.txt,
instead of .git/ignore, and update the list of commands looking
at .git/info/exclude in repository-layout.txt.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 4d8a2ad2d753426a697d9e82ff76e6ad278572db..8520b971111e8b015ac3d08b207a3ab37505ccca 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ An exclude pattern is of the following format:
 An example:
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------
-    $ cat .git/ignore
+    $ cat .git/info/exclude
     # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree.
     *.[oa]
     $ cat Documentation/.gitignore
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ An example:
     !foo.html
     $ git-ls-files --ignored \
         --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \
-        --exclude-from=.git/ignore \
+        --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude \
         --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
 --------------------------------------------------------------
 

diff --git a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
index b52dfdc3081537c68f2fb12635fc986b0221dd4a..275d18bb545f3b14ad1f7de50d4224f184a507f8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
@@ -120,9 +120,11 @@ info/grafts::
 
 info/exclude::
        This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the
-       exclude pattern list.  `git status` looks at it, but
-       otherwise it is not looked at by any of the core git
-       commands.
+       exclude pattern list. `.gitignore` is the per-directory
+       ignore file.  `git status`, `git add`, `git rm` and `git
+       clean` look at it but the core git commands do not look
+       at it.  See also: gitlink:git-ls-files[1] `--exclude-from`
+       and `--exclude-per-directory`.
 
 remotes::
        Stores shorthands to be used to give URL and default