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docs: move core.excludesFile from git-add to gitignore

A section in "git add" documentation mentions core.excludesFile and
explains how it works, but this is not specific to the command.

Move this description to gitignore.txt to be more generic.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Denton Liu 6 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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      Documentation/git-add.txt
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      Documentation/gitignore.txt

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Documentation/git-add.txt

@ -193,15 +193,6 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files. @@ -193,15 +193,6 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files.
for command-line options).


CONFIGURATION
-------------

The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a
file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitignore[5].


EXAMPLES
--------


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Documentation/gitignore.txt

@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ full pathname may have special meaning: @@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:
- Other consecutive asterisks are considered regular asterisks and
will match according to the previous rules.

CONFIGURATION
-------------

The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a
file containing patterns of file names to exclude, similar to
`$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
those in `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.

NOTES
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