Properly managing your .gitignore file
Read OriginalThis article clarifies the proper use of the .gitignore file in Git. It explains its purpose, common mistakes like adding editor-specific patterns to a project's .gitignore, and recommends using a global ignore file for personal tool artifacts. It advises that a project's .gitignore should only contain patterns for build outputs and files generated by the project itself, like *.pyc files in Python.
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