Configure Global gitignore File
There are some files that you know you'll never want tracked by git. You don't even want them showing up as an option. For these files, it can be nice to specify them in a global .gitignore
file. Then you don't need to specify them for each project.
This can be configured in ~/.gitconfig
under the core
settings as excludesFile
.
Then, create ~/.gitignore
(that's as good a place as any to put it).
You'll now notice that for any git project, the files you listed won't be showing up in the untracked list.
You can also add this to your ~/.gitconfig
with this one-line command.
See man git-config
and search core.excludesFile
for more details.
Last updated