Is there an ignore command for git like there is for svn

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I am a new user to git and I am starting a new project  I have a bunch of dot files that I would like to ignore  Is there an ignore command for git like there is for svn

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You have to install git-extras for this  You can install it in Ubuntu using apt-get      sudo apt-get install git-extras   Then you can use the git ignore command     git ignore file name

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There is no special git ignore command   Edit a  gitignore file located in the appropriate place within the working copy  You should then add this  gitignore and commit it  Everyone who clones that repo will than have those files ignored   Note that only file names starting with   will be relative to the directory  gitignore resides in  Everything else will match files in whatever subdirectory   You can also edit  git info exclude to ignore specific files just in that one working copy  The  git info exclude file will not be committed  and will thus only apply locally in this one working copy   You can also set up a global file with patterns to ignore with git config --global core excludesfile  This will locally apply to all git working copies on the same user s account   Run git help gitignore and read the text for the details

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for names not present in the working copy or repo   echo  globpattern  gt  gt   gitignore   or for an existing file  sh type command line    echo    ls -1 file   gt  gt   gitignore     I use tab completion to select the file to be ignored   git rm -r --cached file               if already checked in  deletes it on next commit

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You have two ways of ignoring files     gitignore in any folder will ignore the files as specified in the file for that folder  Using wildcards is possible   git info exclude holds the global ignore pattern  similar to the global-ignores in subversions configuration file

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On Linux Unix  you can append files to the  gitignore file with the echo command  For example if you want to ignore all  svn folders  run this from the root of the project   echo  svn   gt  gt   gitignore

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It s useful to define a complete  gitignore file for your project  The reward is safe use of the convenient --all or -a flag to commands like add and commit  Also  consider defining a global    gitignore file for commonly ignored patterns such as     which covers temporary files created by Emacs

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You could also use Joe Blau s gitignore io  Either through the web interfase https   www gitignore io   Or by installing the CLI tool  it s very easy an fast  just type the following on your terminal   Linux  echo  function gi     curl -L -s https   www gitignore io api          gt  gt     bashrc  amp  amp  source    bashrc  OSX  echo  function gi     curl -L -s https   www gitignore io api          gt  gt     bash profile  amp  amp  source    bash profile  And then you can just type gi followd by the all the platform environment elements you need gitignore criteria for   Example  Lets say you re working on a node project that includes grunt and you re using webstorm on linux  then you may want to type  gi linux webstorm node grunt  gt   gitignore   to make a brand new file  or gi linux webstorm node grunt  gt  gt   gitignore   to append add the new rules to an existing file     bam  you re good to go

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I hope it s not too late   If you are on Windows you can just do the following to create a  gitignore file  echo name of the file you want to ignore extension  gt   gitignore   In order to edit  gitignore you can run  notepad  gitignore

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A very useful git ignore command comes with the awesome tj git-extras   Here are a few usage examples   List all currently ignored patterns  git ignore   Add a pattern  git ignore    log    Add one of the templates from gitignore io  git ignore-io -a rails   git-extras provides many more useful commands  Definitely worth trying out

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Using the answers already provided  you can roll your own git ignore command using an alias  Either add this to your    gitconfig file   ignore    sh -c  echo  1  gt  gt   gitignore  -   Or run this command from the   nix  shell of your choice   git config --global alias ignore   sh -c  echo  1  gt  gt   gitignore  -    You can likewise create a git exclude command by replacing ignore with exclude and  gitignore with  git info exclude in the above    If you don t already understand the difference between these two files having read the answers here  see this question

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Create a file named  gitignore on the root of your repository  In this file you put the relative path to each file you wish to ignore in a single line  You can use the   wildcard

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