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Two Git ignore files nobody told me about

95 points · 66 comments · faithraven

6LLvveMx2koXfwn · 1790170419 · focus · HN ↗
This is great, and nicely written up in the context of agentic repos etc, but presumably no-one reads the official docs, right: <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore" rel="nofollow">https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore where the multiple ways of ignoring files are clearly stated?
1. alexpotato · 1790170736 · focus · HN ↗
  There is a tweet doing numbers on Twitter right now which is effectively:
  "Do the reading b/c you would be amazed how many people don't do the reading"
  1. bigfishrunning · 1790171025 · focus · HN ↗
    So many people treat git commands like magic words, and then are terrified when they mess up their repo (example in this xkcd... <a href="https://xkcd.com/1597/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/1597/)
    Reading documentation is a superpower
    faithraven · 1790171703 · focus · HN ↗
    I'd wager a small sum that git is the tool most of us learned by accident, some of them fortunate, some less so. Thankfully, this one was the former.
    1718627440 · 1790179812 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, but Git is a tool, that in the face of an accident shoves you it's manual in the face.
    coldpie · 1790176330 · focus · HN ↗
    I'm definitely the friend in the alt-text of this comic. What do you mean you haven't read gitcore-tutorial(7)??
  2. windward · 1790178389 · focus · HN ↗
    Do the reading b/c there's a machine that has done all the reading so it's hard to add value if you maintain the anti-intellectualism of 2010s software dev.

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