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Re:Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore by RupertWiser on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:30AM (#31420446)
Do you know about .git/info/exclude? It only exists in your local git file so it isn’t shared with a remote repo and achieves this same purpose.
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Re:Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore by Hamuko on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:39AM (#31420496)
I also (mis)used .gitignore before I realised that there was an easy way to ignore stuff that I have locally without having to commit/ignore a .gitignore file.
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Re:Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore by rpigab on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:34AM (#31420466)
I didn't! Good to know, even if my way is really quick and simple to set up so I might continue doing the same. Thanks!
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Re:Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore by dfee on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:46AM (#31420536)
Not at a term, but would this prevent `git clean -fdx` from removing the dir? That’d be quite useful!
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Re:Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore by CGamesPlay on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:13AM (#31420975)
No, since -x means to “disregard standard ignore rules”, such as .gitignore and .git/info/exclude.

> Don’t use the standard ignore rules (see gitignore[5]), but still use the ignore rules given with -e options from the command line.

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