From: Michael J Gruber Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 15:23:05 +0000 (+0100) Subject: check-ignore: clarify treatment of tracked files X-Git-Tag: v2.3.0-rc0~57^2 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27234a2ef3815050f7df5bf6ad356580f845a3ea;p=git check-ignore: clarify treatment of tracked files By default, check-ignore does not list tracked files at all since they are not subject to ignore patterns. Make this clearer in the man page. Reported-by: Guilherme Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index ee2e091704..788a011580 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier ones. +By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not +subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. + OPTIONS ------- -q, --quiet::