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check-ignore: clarify treatment of tracked files
By default, check-ignore does not list tracked files at all since they are not subject to ignore patterns. Make this clearer in the man page. Reported-by: Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier
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By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not
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subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'.
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OPTIONS
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-q, --quiet::

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