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<\/p>\nIf you have a project that you have git enabled, but you don’t want git to track all of the files in the project folder (perhaps because you don’t want all files to be uploaded to github), you can tell Git to ignore certain files, file types, or sub-directories by creating a “.gitignore” file in your git repository.<\/p>\n
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To set up a .gitignore file on a Windows machine, in your command window cd to the git directory and type the command:<\/p>\n
run dir > .gitignore<\/pre>\nThis outputs the entire directory listing to a file named .gitignore in your git directory.<\/p>\n
To edit the .gitignore file, open it in Notepad++ and replace the directory listing with a single line that contains the file types you want git to ignore. For example, if you want git to ignore .pyc files:<\/p>\n
*.pyc<\/pre>\nWhen you run the git status command in your project folder, Git will read every line of the .gitignore file, where each line is a condition that git should ignore. The types of conditions that can be set in the .gitignore file are:<\/p>\n
Here is a table that shows how to implement each of these condition types:<\/p>\n