From: Daniel Martí Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 22:36:18 +0000 (-0700) Subject: manual: Don't reuse scanignore doc in scandelete X-Git-Tag: 0.5.0~123 X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=664f6e4adbfe338991029adcd751445bad8283b9;p=fdroidserver.git manual: Don't reuse scanignore doc in scandelete --- diff --git a/docs/fdroid.texi b/docs/fdroid.texi index caff594e..76988d96 100644 --- a/docs/fdroid.texi +++ b/docs/fdroid.texi @@ -980,11 +980,13 @@ When scanning the source tree for problems, matching files whose relative paths start with any of the paths given here are ignored. @item scandelete=[,,...] -Similar to scanignore=, but instead of ignoring files under the given paths, -it tells f-droid to delete the matching files directly. +When running the scan process, any files that trigger errors - like binaries - +will be removed. It acts just like scanignore=, but instead of ignoring the +files, it removes them. -When scanning the source tree for problems, matching files whose relative -paths start with any of the paths given here are removed. +Useful when a source code repository includes binaries or other unwanted files +which are not needed for the build. Instead of removing them manually via rm=, +using scandelete= is easier. @item build=xxxx As for 'prebuild', but runs during the actual build phase (but before the