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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 7dc2e8b..254bc1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -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
--
1.7.2.3.557.gab647.dirty
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