@@ -55,14 +55,13 @@ OPTIONS
-e <pattern>::
--exclude=<pattern>::
- In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and
- $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the
- set of the ignore rules in effect.
+ Use the given exclude pattern in addition to the standard ignore rules
+ (see linkgit:gitignore[5]).
-x::
- Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per
- directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore
- rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked
+ Don't use the standard ignore rules (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), but
+ still use the ignore rules given with `-e` options from the command
+ line. This allows removing all untracked
files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in
conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine
working directory to test a clean build.
In the git-clean documentation, -x and -e documented .gitignore, $GIT_DIR/info/excludes but neglected to mention the file pointed to by core.excludesFile. Remove specific list of files and, instead, reference gitignore(5) documentation so that information is consolidated and the git-clean documentation is more precise. Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> --- Documentation/git-clean.txt | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)