On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:40:52PM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: > If you realy need a .gitignore, you can use your own locally: > just add > echo "/.gitignore" >> .gitignore > and the .gitignore file itself as well as everything else matching > the ignore patterns will not show up in "git status" anymore. >
This solution can cause problems. The best solution in this case is using a exclude file in your local repository. It has the same format than gitignore, but it is located in .git/info/, so git doens't show it like modified file.
