From 4bf5dc6646f6f14ce734695f3a3ca007813bc99a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samy Pesse <samypesse@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:29:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add section about ignoring files

---
 docs/SUMMARY.md   |  1 -
 docs/structure.md | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/SUMMARY.md b/docs/SUMMARY.md
index 12871cff3..d8c436bba 100644
--- a/docs/SUMMARY.md
+++ b/docs/SUMMARY.md
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 * [Directory structure](structure.md)
 * [Pages and Summary](pages.md)
-* [Assets and Images](assets.md)
 * [Glossary](glossary.md)
 * [Multi-Lingual](langs.md)
 * [Configuration](config.md)
diff --git a/docs/structure.md b/docs/structure.md
index 2cb94601a..18c4abb09 100644
--- a/docs/structure.md
+++ b/docs/structure.md
@@ -24,7 +24,26 @@ An overview of what each of these does:
 | `SUMMARY.md` | Table of Contents |
 
 
-### Sub-directory
+### Static files and Images
+
+A static file is a file that is not listed in the `SUMMARY.md`. All static files, not [ignored](#ignore), are copied to the output.
+
+### Ignoring files & folders {#ignore}
+
+GitBook will read the `.gitignore`, `.bookignore` and `.ignore` files to get a list of files and folders to skip.
+The format inside those files, follows the same convention as `.gitignore`:
+
+```
+# This is a comment
+
+# Ignore the file test.md
+test.md
+
+# Ignore everything in the directory "bin"
+bin/*
+```
+
+### Project documentation / Sub-directory
 
 For project documentaiton, it sometimes better to use a diretcory (like `docs/`) to store the prject's documentation. You can use a `.gitbook` file to indicate to GitBook in which folder the book is stored: