- Follow the instructions on the Github Docs Website to create a .gitignore in your home directory
- you can also review this gist which basically says the same thing
- Take a screenshot of your terminal with the commands that you used to set up your global gitignore. also screen shot the contents of your global gitignore file (opened in vscode)
- Set up a repo on your desktop don't create from github first
- add tailwind to it
- don't add a gitignore to the repo
- push it and verify that the os level and npm level files aren't being added to the project.
- Add the screenshot to your repo and push it
- Reflection Questions
- Having spent some time using the commandline and git, were the documentation instructions easier to understand then when we were first learning git?
- What is 1 question that you have about git still? (can be related to global gitignore or not)
- Screenshot depicts proper command usage
- gitignore not in repo, and neither are the unwanted files
- Submit a link to your git repo
- Submit a zipped folder of your git repo