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Vlastimil Pospichal • Edited

I put my own .gitignore into .git/info/exclude. It's good for project-specific excludes.

Or for global setting:

$ git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitexclude

example for .gitignore

vendor
temp/*
log/*

example for .git/info/exclude

private
prototypes
Makefile

example for ~/.gitexclude

.idea
.*swp