Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:48:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html