Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > But on the topic of preferring shorter, I sort of wonder if we really > need to provide all of those filenames here. The point we're trying to > make is that we consider another source. So something like this would be > just as technically correct, I think: > > Use the given exclude pattern in addition to those found in .gitignore > and similar files (see linkgit:gitignore[5]). Yes. Unless we devise some mechanism to prevent these text that list the places exclusion list are read from spread across the documentation set, saying "found in usual places (see $there)" and making sure we have the authoritative single place up-to-date is a good approach.
