Doc: fix misleading asciidoc formating

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 0f2cee7c265c75a592e43506a1f11d295b69ca06..5298f1bc3052f47e390eee780efe665083744309 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ OPTIONS
        Show only ignored files in the output. When showing files in the
        index, print only those matched by an exclude pattern. When
        showing "other" files, show only those matched by an exclude
-       pattern.
+       pattern. Standard ignore rules are not automatically activated,
+       therefore at least one of the `--exclude*` options is required.
 
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