In the git-clean documentation, -x and -e documented .gitignore,
$GIT_DIR/info/excludes but neglected to mention the file pointed to by
core.excludesFile.
Remove specific list of files and, instead, reference gitignore(5)
documentation so that information is consolidated and the git-clean
documentation is more precise.
Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.ag...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.den...@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-clean.txt | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 03056dad0d..d251ef9dd2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -55,13 +55,12 @@ OPTIONS
-e <pattern>::
--exclude=<pattern>::
- In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and
- $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the
- set of the ignore rules in effect.
+ Use the exclude pattern in addition to those found in
+ `.gitignore` and similar files (see linkgit:gitignore[5]).
-x::
- Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per
- directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore
+ Don't use the standard ignore rules read from `.gitignore` and
+ similar files (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), but do still use the ignore
rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked
files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in
conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine
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2.21.0.368.gbf248417d7
