Merge branch 'vs/complete-stash-show-p-fix'

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-check-ignore.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index 8b2d49c79e1140bb33b63d8c388f4b2c339f7ccf..0c3924a63d2f8625c91cca9ceb391214c3fc3d41 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
@@ -30,9 +30,15 @@ OPTIONS
        valid with a single pathname.
 
 -v, --verbose::
-       Also output details about the matching pattern (if any)
-       for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and
-       between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5].
+       Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path
+       that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern
+       together with the path.  (Matching an exclude pattern usually
+       means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!'
+       then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is
+       NOT excluded.)
++
+For precedence rules within and between exclude sources, see
+linkgit:gitignore[5].
 
 --stdin::
        Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line,