Add option to cvs update before export

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index e9e193f00866f97b341eebc80ef85e6de9ca3727..d7015387b51d88f6bd6e3918b2bd40c4e9529f15 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ mean the same thing and the latter is kept for backward
 compatibility) and `color.status.<slot>` configuration variables
 to colorize its output.
 
+As for gitlink:git-add[1], the configuration variable
+'core.excludesfile' can indicate a path to a file containing patterns
+of file names to exclude, in addition to patterns given in
+'info/exclude' and '.gitignore'.
+
 
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