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I wish I had learnt about gitignore sooner when I first learnt to use git. Especially if you are using an IDE and it generates a ton of files.
by srikz 6y ago
I wish I had learnt about gitignore sooner when I first learnt to use git. Especially if you are using an IDE and it generates a ton of files.
- johannes1234321 6y agoFor IDE files a global ignore file is useful, then one doesn't have to repeat this for all repos and not all contributors need to add their IDE's files to a shared file. For local there is also .git/info/exclude per repo.
- srikz 6y agoYes, that’s good advice. I was referring to the concept of gitignore in general. At least when I learnt git from some tutorials, gitignore was treated like an advanced topic and I was fumbling with git for a while with all these artefacts creeping into my repo until I learnt of this simple solution