Git is used for a lot of different projects. These projects may provide different types of files. Some times some of those files should not be committed in to the repository. For example after running a python application pyc files are created as compiled python files. Committing them are unnesecary.
Git Ignore File
To ignore files the patterns should be defined in a files named .gitignore file. .gitignore file by default resides in the root of the repository but can be used in sub directories too.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | $ echo "*.pyc" > .gitignore $ cat .gitignore *.pyc $ echo "*.tmp" >> .gitignore $ cat .gitignore *.pyc *.tmp |
*.pycmeans any file ends with pyc extension- Each line for one entry
1 2 3 4 | $ cat .gitignore *.pyc #temp files *.tmp |
#is used as comment and no effect on files those will be ignored
1 2 | $ cat .gitignore /build |
/builddirectory is completely ignored
1 2 | $ cat .gitignore /build/*.out |
- All files in
/builddirectory with extension.out
