1
0
mirror of https://github.com/git/git.git synced 2025-04-18 11:44:44 +00:00

Documentation: split gitignore page into sections

A learner-by-example might want to look at the examples section first.
Help her out by supplying some section headings: PATTERN FORMAT for
the format of lines in an excludes file and EXAMPLES for the two
examples.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jonathan Nieder 2010-11-10 12:57:39 -06:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 60aa9cf8f3
commit 0b803a6cc6

@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ files specified by command-line options. Higher-level git
tools, such as 'git status' and 'git add',
use patterns from the sources specified above.
Patterns have the following format:
PATTERN FORMAT
--------------
- A blank line matches no files, so it can serve as a separator
for readability.
@ -98,7 +99,8 @@ Patterns have the following format:
For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
"mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
An example:
EXAMPLES
--------
--------------------------------------------------------------
$ git status