gitignore¶

You can tell GIT not to track some files via the .gitignore file. Here we collect some examples to put into the .gitignore file. See also man gitignore.

Typical gitignore entries¶

.DS_Store
*~
.#*
.*.sw?

• .DS_Store used by the macOS Finder
• *~ are backup files generated by Emacs an other editors
• .#* are temporary files used by Emacs
• .*.sw? are vim swap files

Global gitignore¶

You can define a global gitignore file

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore.global

to have a list of exclusions common to all your repositories.