Jeff King <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:48:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Brian Norris <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > I mostly just copied from boilerplate on another option. IIRC, there
>> > were at least two other options that were documented similarly.
>>
>> My quick grep didn't find 'another option' other than include.path,
>> but how about this as a preparatory step?
>
> I found core.excludesFile and commit.template which could use the same
> treatment.
>
> -Peff
Thanks. Perhaps squash this to the patch in the message you are
responding to.
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ff7eaaf..786e0fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -603,11 +603,10 @@ be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't
be.
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.excludesFile::
- In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
- '.git/info/exclude', Git looks into this file for patterns
- of files which are not meant to be tracked. "`~/`" is expanded
- to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the specified user's
- home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
+ Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
+ describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
+ to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'.
+ Defaults to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore
is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
@@ -1116,9 +1115,8 @@ commit.status::
message. Defaults to true.
commit.template::
- Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
- "`~/`" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the
- specified user's home directory.
+ Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for
+ new commit messages.
credential.helper::
Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
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