From 407e7680729945126b414a634365be15075fc3bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denton Liu Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 00:25:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] git-clean.txt: clarify ignore pattern files MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Helped-by: Martin Ågren Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Denton Liu Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-clean.txt | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index 03056dad0d..db876f7dde 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -55,14 +55,13 @@ OPTIONS -e :: --exclude=:: - 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 given exclude pattern in addition to the standard ignore rules + (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 - rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked + Don't use the standard ignore rules (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), but + still use the ignore rules given with `-e` options from the command + line. This allows removing all untracked files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine working directory to test a clean build.