gitignore.md

Ignoring files

From time to time there are files you don't want git to track. There are a few methods of telling git what files to ignore.

.gitignore

If you create a file in your repository named .gitignore git will use its rules when looking at files to commit. Note that git will not ignore a file that was already tracked before a rule was added to this file to ignore it. In such a case the file must be un-tracked, usually with git rm --cached filename if you want to ignore a dir, you may be want to use git rm --cached -r dirName.

Global .gitignore

A global .gitignore file can also be very useful for ignoring files in every git repositories on your computer. For example, you might create the file at ~/.gitignoreglobal and add some rules to it. To add this file to your cross-repository configuration, run git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignoreglobal

Here are some good rules to add to this file:

Compiled source

################### *.com *.class *.dll *.exe *.o *.so

Packages

############

it's better to unpack these files and commit the raw source

git has its own built in compression methods

*.7z *.dmg *.gz *.iso *.jar *.rar *.tar *.zip

Logs and databases

###################### *.log *.sql *.sqlite

OS generated files

###################### .DS_Store .DS_Store? ._* .Spotlight-V100 .Trashes ehthumbs.db Thumbs.db

You may also want to check out GitHub's gitignore repository, which contains a list of .gitignore files for many popular operating systems, environments, and languages.

same as the file .git/info/exclude