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Documentation: add another example to git-ls-files

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
maint v1.4.0-rc2
Junio C Hamano 19 years ago
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@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ An exclude pattern is of the following format: @@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ An exclude pattern is of the following format:

- if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
pattern and used to match against the filename without
leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current
implementation).
leading directories.

- otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for
consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag. I.e. a
@ -222,6 +221,19 @@ An example: @@ -222,6 +221,19 @@ An example:
--exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
--------------------------------------------------------------

Another example:

--------------------------------------------------------------
$ cat .gitignore
vmlinux*
$ ls arch/foo/kernel/vm*
arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
$ echo '!/vmlinux*' >arch/foo/kernel/.gitignore
--------------------------------------------------------------

The second .gitignore keeps `arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S` file
from getting ignored.


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