local gitignore

README.md

gitignore files

You can create project specific gitignore files in your git repo, and you can also create a global gitignore.

It is considered best practice to put system related files into a global gitignore.

• A gitignore file sits in either the root of your git repo or in your home directory.
• It needs to be pushed to the remote repositoy
• it needs to be named `.gitignore

These are common files that you should exclude from your projects.

#Mac
.DS_Store
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes

# Windows
Thumbs.db
desktop.ini

# vi
*~

# vscode
.vscode

# General
log/
*.log

Node specific

• You must include these in your gitignore for your cpnt261 assignments.

.env
.env.test

node_modules/
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How to create a global gitignore

• In your home directory create .gitignore_gobal
• add files that you want to exclude from all your projects in that file
• If you're on Linux or mac, run the command: git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global
• If your on windows, your command will look more like git config --global core.excludesfile %USERPROFILE%\.gitignore_global