From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] user-manual: edit "ignoring files" for conciseness Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:57:24 -0700 Message-ID: <200708261257.24338.johan@herland.net> References: <11881450221019-git-send-email-> <11881450231606-git-send-email-> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, "J. Bruce Fields" To: "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 26 22:40:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPOuV-0001WI-Sl for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:40:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750768AbXHZUkg (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:40:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750735AbXHZUkg (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:40:36 -0400 Received: from mail.mailgateway.no ([82.117.37.108]:53693 "EHLO mail.mailgateway.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750718AbXHZUkf (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:40:35 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2583 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:40:35 EDT Received: from s0106000f3da86e41.vc.shawcable.net ([24.84.212.136] helo=nsm-tuh.local) by mail.mailgateway.no with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IPOFG-000HAw-6R; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:58:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <11881450231606-git-send-email-> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sunday 26 August 2007 09:16:57 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > From: J. Bruce Fields > > The immediate motivation for writing this section was to explain the > various places ignore patterns could be used. However, I still think > .gitignore is the case most people will want to learn about first. It > also makes it a bit more concrete to introduce ignore patterns in the > context of .gitignore first. And the existance of gitignore(5) relieves > the pressure to explain it all here. > > So, stick to the .gitignore example, with only a brief mention of the > others, explain the syntax only by example, and leave the rest to > gitignore(5). > > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields > Cc: Johan Herland Acked-By: Johan Herland Have fun! ...Johan