Merge branch 'ds/midx-too-many-packs'

diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 1c94f08ff4dd9af173c659fb0b536f6a71a1c252..b5bc9dbff05b293caae7c42e865b19bc067c4d82 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:
  - Other consecutive asterisks are considered regular asterisks and
    will match according to the previous rules.
 
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a
+file containing patterns of file names to exclude, similar to
+`$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.  Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
+those in `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.
+
 NOTES
 -----