On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 09:10:39PM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > By default git check-ignore shows only the filenames that will be > ignored, not the pattern that causes their exclusion.
Yeah, I think the described behavior is really about the "-v" output. > --- 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. This just drops the mention of patterns entirely. Is the description of "-v" sufficient to cover this (especially I am thinking of the last-pattern-wins behavior)? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
