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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-06-07 20:16:30 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-06-07 20:19:00 -0700
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Documentation: add another example to git-ls-filesv1.4.0-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ An exclude pattern is of the following format:
- if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
pattern and used to match against the filename without
- leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current
- implementation).
+ leading directories.
- otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for
consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag. I.e. a
@@ -222,6 +221,19 @@ An example:
--exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
--------------------------------------------------------------
+Another example:
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+ $ cat .gitignore
+ vmlinux*
+ $ ls arch/foo/kernel/vm*
+ arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+ $ echo '!/vmlinux*' >arch/foo/kernel/.gitignore
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The second .gitignore keeps `arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S` file
+from getting ignored.
+
See Also
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