From 664f6e4adbfe338991029adcd751445bad8283b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Daniel=20Mart=C3=AD?= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:36:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] manual: Don't reuse scanignore doc in scandelete --- docs/fdroid.texi | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.30.2