Global Git ignore

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I want to set up Git to globally ignore certain files   I have added a  gitignore file to my home directory   Users me   and I have added the following line to it     tmproj   But it is not ignoring this type of files  any idea what I am doing wrong

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If you use Unix system  you can solve your problem in two commands  Where the first initialize configs and the second alters file with a file to ignore     git config --global core excludesfile    gitignore   echo   idea   gt  gt     gitignore

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To create global gitignore from scratch      cd     touch  gitignore global   git config --global core excludesfile    gitignore global    First line changes directory to C  Users User After that you create an empty file with  gitignore global extension And finally setting global ignore to that file  Then you should open it with some kind of notepad and add the needed ignore rules

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You should create an exclude file for this  Check out this gist which is pretty self explanatory   To address your question though  you may need to either de-index the  tmproj file  if you ve already added it to the index  with git rm --cached path to  tmproj  or git add and commit your  gitignore file

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If you re using VSCODE  you can get this extension to handle the task for you  It watches your workspace each time you save your work and helps you to automatically ignore the files and folders you specified in your vscode settings json ignoreit  vscode extension

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I am able to ignore a  tmproj file by including either  tmproj or   tmproj in my  users me  gitignore-global file     Note that the file name is  gitignore-global not  gitignore   It did not work by including  tmproj or   tmproj in a file called  gitignore in the  users me directory

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on windows subsystem for linux I had to navigate to the subsystem root by cd    then touch  gitignore and then update the global gitignore configuration in there   I hope it helps someone

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Remember that running the command   git config --global core excludesfile     gitignore    will just set up the global file  but will NOT create it  For Windows check your Users directory for the  gitconfig file  and edit it to your preferences  In my case It s like that    core    excludesfile   c  Users myuser Dropbox Apps Git  gitignore

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Although other answers are correct they are setting the global config value whereas there is a default git location for the global git ignore file    nix      config git ignore   Windows    USERPROFILE  git ignore   You may need to create git directory and ignore file but then you can put your global ignores into that file and that s it   Source     Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to be used               Patterns which a user wants Git to ignore in all situations  e g   backup or temporary files generated by the user   s editor of choice  generally go into a file specified by core excludesFile in the user   s    gitconfig  Its default value is  XDG CONFIG HOME git ignore  If  XDG CONFIG HOME is either not set or empty   HOME  config git ignore is used instead

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Before reconfiguring the global excludes file  you might want to check what it s currently configured to  using this command   git config --get core excludesfile   In my case  when I ran it I saw my global excludes file was configured to    gitignore global and there were already a couple things listed there  So in the case of the given question  it might make sense to first check for an existing excludes file  and add the new file mask to it

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Create a  gitignore file in your home directory   touch    gitignore    Add files to it  folders aren t recognised    Example    these work   gz   tmproj   7z    these won t as they are folders  vscode  build     but you can do this  vscode   build      Check if a git already has a global gitignore   git config --get core excludesfile    Tell git where the file is   git config --global core excludesfile     gitignore    Voila

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From here   If you create a file in your repo named  gitignore git will use its rules when looking at files to commit  Note that git will not ignore a file that was already tracked before a rule was added to this file to ignore it  In such a case the file must be un-tracked  usually with    git rm --cached filename   Is it your case

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You need to set up your global core excludesfile configuration file to point to this global ignore file  e g   nix or Windows git bash  git config --global core excludesFile     gitignore   Windows cmd  git config --global core excludesFile  quot  USERPROFILE   gitignore quot   Windows PowerShell  git config --global core excludesFile  quot  Env USERPROFILE  gitignore quot   For Windows it set to the location C  Users  myusername   gitignore  You can verify that the config value is correct by doing  git config --global core excludesFile  The result should be the expanded path to your user profile s  gitignore  Ensure that the value does not contain the unexpanded  USERPROFILE  string  Important  The above commands will only set the location of the ignore file that git will use  The file has to still be manually created in that location and populated with the ignore list   from muruge s comment  You can read about the command at https   help github com articles ignoring-files  create-a-global-gitignore

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