Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

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It's also possible to ignore files of a repository without the .gitignore files. You can put your ignored files in a global ignore file, for example ~/.gitignore_global, and globally configure Git to also consider entries in this file to be ignored:

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

You can also do it per repository in the .git/info/exclude file. If you use either of these options, you won't be able to easily share the ignored file; they can't be added to the repository as they are stored outside it. Sharing .gitignore files is much easier; you just add and commit them to Git. But, let's see how the other options work:

$ echo "*.test" > .git/info/exclude
$ touch test.test
$ git status
On branch ignore ...