.gitignoreFor quite some time, my Git config has had the following entry:
[core]
excludesfile = /home/jamie/.gitignore_global
This allows me to globally set patterns that I don't want to see anywhere, ever, such as my git worktrees.
But it turns out that Git actually has a default location for your gitignores, located in ~/.config/git/ignore, which means you don't even need that configuration to be set!
Thanks to /u/toupeira for sharing the tip on reddit.
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.How to have Git have a list of files to globally ignore, without configuring anything in your `~/.gitconfig`.
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