Re: [PATCH] check-ignore: correct documentation about output

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On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 09:10:39PM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:

> By default git check-ignore shows only the filenames that will be
> ignored, not the pattern that causes their exclusion.

Yeah, I think the described behavior is really about the "-v" output.

> --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
> @@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
>  
>  For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
> -`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to
> -the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or
> -included.  Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier
> -ones.
> +`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other
> +input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is
> +excluded.

This just drops the mention of patterns entirely. Is the description of
"-v" sufficient to cover this (especially I am thinking of the
last-pattern-wins behavior)?

-Peff
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