"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> Robert, care to come up with an example demonstrating where it does not? > > sorry i wasn't clear, all i was pointing out was that "man > git-clean" *explicitly* mentioned two locations related to cleaning: > ... > without additionally *explicitly* mentioning core.excludesFile. OK, so together with the homework Dscho did for you and what I wrote earlier, I think you have enough information to answer the question yourself. That is, the code does *not* ignore, and the doc was trying to be (overly) exhaustive but because it predates core.excludesFile, after the introduction of that configuration, it no longer is exhaustigve and has become stale. Which would leave a small, easy and low-hanging fruit, I guess ;-). Thanks.