{"id":940,"date":"2023-03-13T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naveedulhaq.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2023-03-13T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:54:33","slug":"how-to-create-gitignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naveedulhaq.com\/index.php\/npm-git\/how-to-create-gitignore\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create .gitignore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While working on your projects, you will often find many ignore files and directories (like <em><strong>.env<\/strong><\/em> or any other local environment secrets, <strong><em>.vscode<\/em><\/strong> or any different IDE configurations, <strong><em>.DS_store<\/em><\/strong> MacOS related, <strong><em>.eslintrc<\/em><\/strong>, <em><strong>.csslintrc<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>node_modules\/<\/strong><\/em> and the list goes on ) that you have to add every time in your repository <strong><em>.gitignore<\/em><\/strong>. And obviously, you don\u2019t want to track and push them to <strong><em>Git<\/em><\/strong> because firstly, a repository should not care about any personal or environmental configurations and secondly it would be a bit of difficult to maintain <em><strong>.gitignore<\/strong><\/em> rules on the repository level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is an easy and better way to solve this issue that <strong><em>Git<\/em><\/strong> provides us with, which is to set up a personal <em><strong>global .gitignore<\/strong><\/em> file at your home directory level. You can list all your ignore files and directories from all of your repositories (whether new or old).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">.gitignore for Mac OS Users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Open your terminal and in your home directory run the following command to create a new file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/noXbHOW1DrIRqXRchR71aLQ2YScOlntdTcFJ-Hr6LJdCdBHQ-cn-YYDN_o5Cqz7aHGYtAjsNhwyjBQDEkOMc3PBmkGF5flMhqk-Gru7tYcxISiLB_MEz0WD-Lb3oymtCaNtFkXaYkwNhA_gUqnOypII\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you need to open it with the text editor of your choice and you can add in there whatever folder\/files you always want to ignore in every repository.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For example<\/strong> to open your file in VSCode after the above command run this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/csx0_faYd-bHNfoZyo7Ft1KoafqGX29x5MlQvBLPatyAWzQAXLJNPPilcA4u-LugnSXCCQePsnPrlOfe2FM0YmV1Cq0JGpM-cHbBqDnrVlW0DBDjXYWoixMafX8ZLxAFFcT4-fl2BgvmzHeOnS2Z8pE\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am adding quite a few global configurations for my repositories which look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"311\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/SozIL2nNCWaTRmMHS6eVFlfVg7cANbR6piM_CoD2IfDHrJVREkSGoG91u7CGSTmRGZUSeDIXjjFrw3lqM_jIwqDdVK10HKcQrFPmOoKoOx193th16jDvk3reoSSb19-BoaXsZK4fKpgf4zZYi0h0zCo\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final step would be to configure it with <strong><em>Git<\/em><\/strong> so that it can use our <strong><em>~\/.gitignore<\/em><\/strong> file for all of our <strong><em>Git<\/em><\/strong> repositories. You will need to run the following command in your terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/frE03P1m-UNaheeXvfKgpLTQEHnWFNmYhYVdOXmsNQX-GBlcoDSoZPiHypsQAhlUR8r4HwTxpAnm4mvJI8MDnSUrRR_b_f5ryzDr-gUA8PWbBK9q7d6HwKmOAV3stpqdC7lUO9L9GTNoUBST7PsqSG0\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">.gitignore for Windows OS Users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a <strong><em>.gitignore<\/em><\/strong> file in the root directory of your user profile. You can also achieve this by using<strong><em> Git Bash<\/em><\/strong> and then running the following command for configurations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"32\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/Lac4wzwGmTq9MaKEleSwAtRnEq_DYglJsmkGDai7jMd3CTbgxAmvwte5lvzD69WjPr11xWJFtpobEbPnVlwbqcjI498n9ExFIYgufM6zKyMwEyBHXlX4flMUjjuVMeSLPlVu7kHq4DLM6vmWf3GLrTk\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is it. Now you don\u2019t have to worry about those troublesome configurations for every repository individually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: &#8211; You can also use the following command on any system to verify the config file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/i9L25jTlaQDLbLz748tcwjdEGQINdUcaQFeXZvjusraoVlf36lu9ysZ2kFxbyPFoXBYVlsGL-SawWovsfhZ1L2J158zI0HHPFPZcM0Cp824Mf_k4WN9oCCQoe21RobK1nLPyClwJxoxjM2tcAFH46pg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"378\" height=\"34\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This should return the full path of your file. 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