Merge branch 'tc/maint-transport-ls-remote-with-void'

diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 59321a2e82b1e141746d94c439452b52b84994ad..98c459dc82be46be706b1d7545d7ec95efd8790c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome):
 
  * Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory
    as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the
-   higher level files (up to the root) being overridden by those in
-   lower level files down to the directory containing the file.
+   higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) being overridden
+   by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the file.
    These patterns match relative to the location of the
    `.gitignore` file.  A project normally includes such
    `.gitignore` files in its repository, containing patterns for
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by
 `core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`.
 
 The underlying git plumbing tools, such as
-'git-ls-files' and 'git-read-tree', read
+'git ls-files' and 'git read-tree', read
 `gitignore` patterns specified by command-line options, or from
 files specified by command-line options.  Higher-level git
-tools, such as 'git-status' and 'git-add',
+tools, such as 'git status' and 'git add',
 use patterns from the sources specified above.
 
 Patterns have the following format: