Documentation: split gitignore page into sections
authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:57:39 +0000 (12:57 -0600)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:54:57 +0000 (10:54 -0800)
A learner-by-example might want to look at the examples section first.
Help her out by supplying some section headings: PATTERN FORMAT for
the format of lines in an excludes file and EXAMPLES for the two
examples.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 7dc2e8b0bcdfb189724ef9b2204f4e624e3be589..254bc1ac26d39fd47e37566c8478ad5c02ed2841 100644 (file)
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ files specified by command-line options.  Higher-level git
 tools, such as 'git status' and 'git add',
 use patterns from the sources specified above.
 
-Patterns have the following format:
+PATTERN FORMAT
+--------------
 
  - A blank line matches no files, so it can serve as a separator
    for readability.
@@ -98,7 +99,8 @@ Patterns have the following format:
    For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
    "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
 
-An example:
+EXAMPLES
+--------
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------
     $ git status