From 1b52948e42e612638131f376fee7415e08c4a38c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thayne McCombs <astrothayne@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:09:18 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add better documentation of vcs-ignore files.

Explicitly list which files are used for gitignore.

Fixes #354
---
 doc/fd.1 | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/fd.1 b/doc/fd.1
index 487ffd0..265e298 100644
--- a/doc/fd.1
+++ b/doc/fd.1
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Include hidden files and directories in the search results
 .TP
 .B \-I, \-\-no\-ignore
 Show search results from files and directories that would otherwise be ignored by
-.IR .gitignore ,
+any of the files ignored by the '\-\-no\-ignore\-vcs' option,
 .IR .ignore ,
 .IR .fdignore ,
 or the global ignore file.
@@ -41,9 +41,15 @@ or the global ignore file.
 Alias for '--no-ignore'. Can be repeated; '-uu' is an alias for '--no-ignore --hidden'.
 .TP
 .B \-\-no\-ignore\-vcs
-Show search results from files and directories that would otherwise be ignored by
-.I .gitignore
-files.
+Show search results from files and directories that would otherwise be ignored by gitignore files
+including
+.IR  .gitignore ,
+.IR  .git/info/exclude ,
+and the global gitignore configuration (
+.I core.excludesFile
+git setting, which defaults to
+.I $HOME/.config/git/ignore
+).
 .TP
 .B \-s, \-\-case\-sensitive
 Perform a case-sensitive search. By default, fd uses case-insensitive searches, unless the