
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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