TIL Ignoring files in a repo without .gitignore
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TAGS: git
USECASE:
You're working on a project that's uploaded to bitbucket/github.
You have a folder called 'repo-notes-for-myself' but you don't want to upload it to main.
You can either add the folder repo-notes-for-myself to .gitignore. But then that ignore file will be added to the repo.
What if you add it to a localized ignore file that isn't uploaded?
.git > info > exclude is a text file that you can modify to exclude specific files.
# git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude
# Lines that start with '#' are comments.
# For a project mostly in C, the following would be a good set of
# exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them):
# *.[oa]
# *~
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