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gitignore binary files that have no extension

How can binary files be ignored in git using the .gitignore file? Example: $ g++ hello.c -o hello The “hello” file is a ...

June 4, 2022
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Is there a way to tell git to only include certain files instead of ignoring certain files?

My programs generally generate huge output files (~1 GB) which I do not want to be backing up to the git repository. So ...

June 3, 2022
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Add .gitignore to gitignore

Is it possible to add the .gitignore file to .gitignore itself? .gitignore Doesn’t work though I don’t want to see it in edited ...

May 30, 2022
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When would you use .git/info/exclude instead of .gitignore to exclude files?

I am a bit confused about the pros and cons of using .git/info/exclude and .gitignore to exclude files. Both of them are at ...

May 29, 2022
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gitignore does not ignore folder

In the root of my project I have a foo folder. Inside the foo folder I have a bar folder. I would like ...

May 28, 2022
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How to tell git to ignore individual lines, i.e. gitignore for specific lines of code [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Can git ignore a specific line? (9 answers) Closed 7 years ago. .gitignore can ignore whole files, ...

May 28, 2022
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What is .gitignore?

I just created a Github repository and was wondering what the .gitignore file was for. I started by not creating one, but added ...

May 25, 2022
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git ignore all files of a certain type, except those in a specific subfolder

I have a directory structure like this: root folder1 abc.json def.json somedir more.json folder2 qwe.json rty.json spec mock1.json mock2.json somedir more_mocks.json Now using ...

May 24, 2022
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Exceptions in .gitignore [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Make .gitignore ignore everything except a few files (27 answers) Closed 2 years ago. How can I ...

May 23, 2022
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How do I tell Git to ignore everything except a subdirectory?

I want to ignore all files in my repository except those that occur in the bin subdirectory. I tried adding the following to ...

May 21, 2022
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