There was a section on configuration mentioning core.excludesFile in
git-add.txt. However, the core.excludesFile config variable is not
exclusive to git-add. Move this description to gitignore.txt to be more
generic.
---
Documentation/git-add.txt | 9 ---------
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 37bcab94d5..8b0e4c7fa8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -193,15 +193,6 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files.
for command-line options).
-CONFIGURATION
--------------
-
-The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a
-file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
-$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
-those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
-
-
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 1c94f08ff4..b5bc9dbff0 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:
- Other consecutive asterisks are considered regular asterisks and
will match according to the previous rules.
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a
+file containing patterns of file names to exclude, similar to
+`$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
+those in `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.
+
NOTES
-----
--
2.21.0.368.gbf248417d7
