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Two Git ignore files nobody told me about

95 points · 66 comments · faithraven

  1. henrydoughty · · focus · HN ↗
    On Windows I never found ~/.config/git/ignore. I just used .gitignore for everything.

    I've been leaving notes sitting untracked rather than put a filename only I use into the repo. .git/info/exclude is what I actually needed.

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