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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt17
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index f60ee051f8..e94367a5ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ SEE ALSO
linkgit:gitignore[5]
linkgit:gitconfig[5]
linkgit:git-ls-files[1]
-GIT_TRACE_EXCLUDE in linkgit:git[1]
GIT
---
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 5f3647ea31..a9120a8779 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -1069,11 +1069,6 @@ of clones and fetches.
cloning of shallow repositories.
See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
-'GIT_TRACE_EXCLUDE'::
- Enables trace messages that can help debugging .gitignore
- processing. See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output
- options.
-
'GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS'::
Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all
pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example,
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 3ded6fdc99..473623d631 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
- An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any
matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
- included again.
+ included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent
+ directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn't list excluded
+ directories for performance reasons, so any patterns on contained
+ files have no effect, no matter where they are defined.
Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns
that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`".
- It is possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that
- file is excluded if certain conditions are met. See section NOTES
- for detail.
- If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the
purpose of the following description, but it would only find
@@ -141,15 +141,6 @@ not tracked by Git remain untracked.
To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use
'git rm --cached'.
-To re-include files or directories when their parent directory is
-excluded, the following conditions must be met:
-
- - The rules to exclude a directory and re-include a subset back must
- be in the same .gitignore file.
-
- - The directory part in the re-include rules must be literal (i.e. no
- wildcards)
-
EXAMPLES
--------