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From: Andrew Berry <andrew@furrypaws.ca>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, Andrew Berry <andrew@furrypaws.ca>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only
Date: Fri,  2 Jul 2021 18:20:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210702222044.72767-1-andrew@furrypaws.ca> (raw)

The current documentation reads as if .gitignore files will be parsed in
every parent directory, and not until they reach a repository boundary.
This clarifies the current behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Berry <andrew@furrypaws.ca>
---
 Documentation/gitignore.txt | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 53e7d5c914..534cda5747 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome):
    them.
 
  * Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory
-   as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the
-   higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) being overridden
-   by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the file.
-   These patterns match relative to the location of the
+   as the path, or in any parent directory in the same repository, with
+   patterns in the higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree)
+   being overridden by those in lower level files down to the directory
+   containing the file. These patterns match relative to the location of the
    `.gitignore` file.  A project normally includes such
    `.gitignore` files in its repository, containing patterns for
    files generated as part of the project build.
-- 
2.31.1


             reply	other threads:[~2021-07-02 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-02 22:20 Andrew Berry [this message]
2021-07-03  0:06 ` [PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only Junio C Hamano
2021-07-03  0:21 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-07-05 17:30   ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-05 19:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-05 23:50       ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-06 16:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-06 20:54           ` [PATCH] docs: .gitignore parsing is to the top of the repo Andrew Berry
2021-07-06 20:57             ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-06 21:57               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-07  0:18                 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-07  0:32                   ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-07  1:20                     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-18 14:12                 ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-19 18:36                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-06 21:55             ` Junio C Hamano

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