On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:34 PM Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 19:22, Thomas Koenig via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I just found a few unversioned files called .intrinsic.c.swp and > > similar in my "git status" output. > > > > Could somebody please put .*.swp into .gitignore? I'm sure this > > would save at least 10 reverts :-) > > You can just add it to .git/info/exclude in your own clone. > Or have a personal ~/.gitignore_global for all projects. Here is mine. $ cat ~/.gitignore_global *.o *.swp *~ *.gcno changes-xxx cscope.out Here is the section in ~/.gitconfig to enable it and a couple of other handy things. [core] excludesfile = /home/joel/.gitignore_global whitespace = trailing-space,space-before-tab pager = less -R Git is magic and full of options! --joel RTEMS