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As you remember, Gert, on The X-Files, you explicitly ask it to, but it could happen that you ask

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it to track some files by mistake.

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For instance, you could issue the command grid at DOT, and as you remember, this command will add

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all the files in the repository to be tracked.

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We have a way to hide certain files from Git that you know you'll never want it to track.

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To do this, we have to add it dot git ignore file.

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This configuration file is added to the root directory of the repository and it lists files you don't

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want git to track or display as part of git status.

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You can add items to the dot git ignore file and commit them.

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By the way, all the file is listed in git ignore is not meant to be tracked.

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It's possible that you could accidental lee tell git to track a file that's listed in there.

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If that happens, you won't get any error message.

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This is another reason you should avoid running git at DOD as it may cause files to be tracked by git

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unintentionally.

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Examples of files that you might want to add to get ignored include such files as dot xy or some dot

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db on windows.

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Or you could exclude the whole directory the whole repository by adding the directory to this file.

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Now let me create a directory called temp and create a file called config.

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TXT.

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I want git to ignore this directory, this repository and this file so I'll open the dot git ignore

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file with nano editor and I'll type temp slash and config txt.

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I'll press control x and save the settings and let's try run and get status command now.

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And as you can see, these files are not tracked.

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The output gives us only the dot git ignore file, although it's advised to add the dot git ignore file

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to your repository.

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You can even hide the dot git ignore file from git.

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Just add a line dot git ignore to the file and get will ignore this file as well.

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However, in such a situation the file will only reside in the local copy of the repository.

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So that's for you to decide.

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You can find many git ignore templates online depending on the framework you are working on, such as

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rails.

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For example, you may want to browse through this huge collection of dot git ignore files on GitHub.

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This templates serve as handy starting points for new projects.

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Please keep in mind that you should set up your dot git ignore early because if you add dot git ignore

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file at the late stage of a project and then add some file to it which is already committed, it will

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still continue to be committed in your repository and tracked by Git.

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The only way out in this case is to explicitly track the file in git, after which git will ignore the

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file.