From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 03:16:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Documentation: add another example to git-ls-files
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Documentation: add another example to git-ls-files

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index a29c633c..4d8a2ad2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ An exclude pattern is of the following format:
 
  - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
    pattern and used to match against the filename without
-   leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current
-   implementation).
+   leading directories.
 
  - otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for
    consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag.  I.e. a
@@ -222,6 +221,19 @@ An example:
         --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
 --------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Another example:
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+    $ cat .gitignore
+    vmlinux*
+    $ ls arch/foo/kernel/vm*
+    arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+    $ echo '!/vmlinux*' >arch/foo/kernel/.gitignore
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The second .gitignore keeps `arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S` file
+from getting ignored.
+
 
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