 that the
pattern file appears in.</p>
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<p>Generally, you should be able to use <code>--exclude-standard</code> when you
want the exclude rules applied the same way as what Porcelain
commands do.  To emulate what <code>--exclude-standard</code> specifies, you
can give <code>--exclude-per-directory=.gitignore</code>, and then specify:</p>
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<li>
<p>The file specified by the <code>core.excludesfile</code> configuration
variable,