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 <guibufolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
maint
Michael J Gruber 2014-12-04 16:23:05 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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commit 27234a2ef3
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@ -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::