Create a new manpage for the gitignore format, and reference it elsewhere

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index fdb71de9f6c4f508996ccdf7970522ba53bb0dfe..7d9afe20f91c3922b909ef5e217c1b7640e2c600 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 core.excludeFile::
        In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
        '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
-       of files which are not meant to be tracked.
+       of files which are not meant to be tracked.  See
+       gitlink:gitignore[5].
 
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.