Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.5-rc1-22-g17689
diff --git a/gitignore.html b/gitignore.html index 36f952c..e026e4f 100644 --- a/gitignore.html +++ b/gitignore.html
@@ -314,6 +314,17 @@ </p> </li> </ul> +<p>Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to +be used. Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to +other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want +to ignore) should go into a <tt>.gitignore</tt> file. Patterns which are +specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared +with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside +the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into +the <tt>$GIT_DIR/info/exclude</tt> file. Patterns which a user wants git to +ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by +the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by +<tt>core.excludesfile</tt> in the user's <tt>~/.gitconfig</tt>.</p> <p>The underlying git plumbing tools, such as <a href="git-ls-files.html">git-ls-files(1)</a> and <a href="git-read-tree.html">git-read-tree(1)</a>, read <tt>gitignore</tt> patterns specified by command-line options, or from @@ -422,7 +433,7 @@ </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> -Last updated 17-Feb-2008 03:50:09 UTC +Last updated 27-Mar-2008 23:49:28 UTC </div> </div> </body>
