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ls-files: guide folks to --exclude-standard over other --exclude* options

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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Elijah Newren 2023-01-13 04:41:54 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
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@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ OPTIONS
--exclude-per-directory=<file>::
Read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
directory and its subdirectories in <file>. Deprecated; use
--exclude-standard instead.
--exclude-standard::
Add the standard Git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore
@ -291,7 +292,9 @@ traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
flags --others or --ignored are specified. linkgit:gitignore[5]
specifies the format of exclude patterns.
These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
Generally, you should just use --exclude-standard, but for historical
reasons the exclude patterns can be specified from the following
places, in order:
1. The command-line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a
single pattern. Patterns are ordered in the same order