Global .gitignore

Friday, 6 August 2021

At 72 words, this article should take about 19 seconds to read.

Unfortunately, this has happened to the best of us at some point, amirite?!

Inspired by this monstrosity, I decided to do some investigation!

Here is how to create a global .gitignore file to define a list of rules for ignoring files in every single Git repository on your computer…


  touch ~/.gitignore_global
  echo node_modules >> ~/.gitignore_global
  echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore_global
  echo .vscode >> ~/.gitignore_global
  git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global

For more handy git tips: RTFM 😉

Cover image courtesy of Roman Synkevych.

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