On 5 Jul 2021, at 15:59, Junio C Hamano wrote:
"Andrew Berry" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Meaning something like the following?
I do agree that it makes it a lot clearer.
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git c/Documentation/gitignore.txt w/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 53e7d5c914..58c2e41bbe 100644
--- c/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ w/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the
outcome):
them.
* Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory
- as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the
- higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) being
overridden
+ as the path, or in any parent directory (up to the toplevel of
+ the work tree), with patterns in the higher level files being
overridden
by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the
file.
These patterns match relative to the location of the
`.gitignore` file. A project normally includes such
Yes, that's good. My only suggestion would mirror the earlier one, to
split toplevel to "top-level" or "top level".
