[Peff, sorry for the duplicate mail. It seems I can't brain today...] On vr, 2015-11-20 at 06:31 -0500, Jeff King wrote: > 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.
Yup. > > --- 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)? The -v should then also describe precendence rules between files. Or maybe just link to gitignore(5). -- Dennis Kaarsemaker www.kaarsemaker.net -- 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
