check-ignore: correct documentation about output

By default git check-ignore shows only the filenames that will be
ignored, not the pattern that causes their exclusion. Instead of moving
the partial exclude pattern precendence information to the -v option
where it belongs, link to gitignore(5) which describes this more
thoroughly.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Dennis Kaarsemaker 2015-11-20 21:30:48 +01:00 committed by Jeff King
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@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
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For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to
the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or
included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier
ones.
`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other
input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is
excluded.
By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not
subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'.
@ -32,7 +31,8 @@ OPTIONS
-v, --verbose::
Also output details about the matching pattern (if any)
for each given pathname.
for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and
between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5].
--stdin::
Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line,