> I fail to parse how the exclude works even looking at the docs Most git subcommands can take a pathspec, including git log. The documentation you want to re

> I fail to parse how the exclude works even looking at the docs Most git subcommands can take a pathspec, including git log. The documentation you want to read is the pathspec docs, see here: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary#Documentation/gitglossary.txt-aiddefpathspecapathspec https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary#Documentation/gitglossa... You can see that it includes the exclude keyword, among others. Since it applies to almost every command (from 'git add -- <pathspec>' to 'git checkout -- <pathspec>'), it's not mentioned as clearly in individual commands.