Re: [PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only

["Andrew Berry" <andrew@furrypaws.ca>]

On 5 Jul 2021, at 15:59, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Andrew Berry" <andrew@furrypaws.ca> writes:
>
> Meaning something like the following?
>
> I do agree that it makes it a lot clearer.
>
>  Documentation/gitignore.txt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git c/Documentation/gitignore.txt w/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> index 53e7d5c914..58c2e41bbe 100644
> --- c/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> +++ w/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ 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
> +   as the path, or in any parent directory (up to the toplevel of
> +   the work tree), with patterns in the higher level files 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

Yes, that's good. My only suggestion would mirror the earlier one, to 
split toplevel to "top-level" or "top level".