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Documentation/gitignore.txt: Fix the seriously misleading priority explanation

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Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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David Kastrup 2007-07-22 01:53:49 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -18,21 +18,26 @@ pattern.
When deciding whether to ignore a path, git normally checks
`gitignore` patterns from multiple sources, with the following
order of precedence:
order of precedence, from highest to lowest (within one level of
precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome):
* Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration
variable 'core.excludesfile'.
* Patterns read from `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.
* Patterns read from the command line for those commands that support
them.
* Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory
as the path, or in any parent directory, ordered from the
deepest such file to a file in the root of the repository.
as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the
higher level files (up to the root) being overriden by those in
lower level files down to the directory containing the file.
These patterns match relative to the location of the
`.gitignore` file. A project normally includes such
`.gitignore` files in its repository, containing patterns for
files generated as part of the project build.
* Patterns read from `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.
* Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration
variable 'core.excludesfile'.
The underlying git plumbing tools, such as
gitlink:git-ls-files[1] and gitlink:git-read-tree[1], read
`gitignore` patterns specified by command-line options, or from
@ -49,7 +54,8 @@ Patterns have the following format:
- An optional prefix '!' which negates the pattern; any
matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
included again.
included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will
override lower precedence patterns sources.
- If the pattern does not contain a slash '/', git treats it as
a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the