Dan W Anderson anderson-dan-w

There are certain files created by particular editors, IDEs, operating systems, etc., that do not belong in a repository. But adding system-specific files to the repo's .gitignore is considered a poor practice. This file should only exclude files and directories that are a part of the package that should not be versioned (such as the node_modules directory) as well as files that are generated (and regenerated) as artifacts of a build process.

All other files should be in your own global gitignore file:

Create a file called .gitignore in your home directory and add any filepath patterns you want to ignore.
Tell git where your global gitignore file is.

Note: The specific name and path you choose aren't important as long as you configure git to find it, as shown below. You could substitute .config/git/ignore for .gitignore in your home directory, if you prefer.

	# To Setup:
	# 1) Save the .git-completion.bash file found here:
	# https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
	# 2) Add the following lines to your .bash_profile, be sure to reload (for example: source ~/.bash_profile) for the changes to take effect:

	# Git branch bash completion
	if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
	. ~/.git-completion.bash

	# Add git completion to aliases