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doc: gitignore: clarify pattern base for info/exclude and core.excludesFile
authorShreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>
Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:21:58 +0000 (20:51 +0530)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:41:59 +0000 (11:41 -0700)
commit0f0ce0762503cb8f58a3ce07052a639e36e07ed5
treef63695521ec28bcab216c022d4f65612e0393598
parent9a2fb147f2c61d0cab52c883e7e26f5b7948e3ed
doc: gitignore: clarify pattern base for info/exclude and core.excludesFile

The pattern format section describes how patterns are interpreted
relative to the location of a .gitignore file, but does not mention
the behavior for exclude sources outside the working tree.

Clarify that patterns from $GIT_DIR/info/exclude and core.excludesFile
are treated as if they are specified at the root of the working tree,
so a leading '/' anchors matches at the repository root.

Reported-by: Dan Drake <dan@dandrake.org>
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/gitignore.adoc