Where does the gitignore file belong

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Does the  gitignore file belong in the  git folder structure somewhere or in the main source files

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When in doubt just place it in the root of your repository  See https   help github com articles ignoring-files  for more information

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You can place  gitignore in any directory in git   It s commonly used as a placeholder file in folders  since folders aren t usually tracked by git

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Root directory is fine for placing the  gitignore file  Don t forget to use git rm --cached FILENAME to add files to  gitignore if you have created the gitignore file after you committed the repo with a file you want ignored  See github docs  I found this out when I created a  env file  then committed it  then tried it to ignore it by creating a  gitignore file

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If you want to do it globally  you can use the default path git will search for  Just place it inside a file named  ignore  in the path    config git   so full path for your file is     config git ignore

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Put  gitignore in the working directory   It doesn t work if you put it in the  git  repository  directory       ls -1d  git   git  gitignore

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As the other answers stated  you can place  gitignore within any directory in a Git repository  However  if you need to have a private version of  gitignore  you can add the rules to  git info exclude file

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You may also find a global  gitignore directly at the   path if you haven t created it in your folder project  This file is taken into account by all your  git projects

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Also  if you create a new account on Github you will have the option to add  gitignore and it will be setup automatically on the right standard location of your working place  You don t have to add anything in there at the begin  just alter the contents any time you want

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In the simple case  a repository might have a single  gitignore file in its root directory  which applies recursively to the entire repository  However  it is also possible to have additional  gitignore files in subdirectories  The rules in these nested  gitignore files apply only to the files under the directory where they are located  The Linux kernel source repository has 206  gitignore files  -- this is what i read from progit pdf version 2   P32

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