Ignore Git

• How do I find the global ignore configuration file?
  git config --get-all core.excludesfile
  
  (In svn, the global ignore configuration file is al
  ways ~/.subversion/config)
  
  
• How do I create a global ignore file if one is not configured?
  git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global
  
  (In svn, just create the text file ~/.subversion/config)
  
  
• What do I put in the global ignore configuration text file?
  You can find examples of .gitignore_global at
  https://github.com/github/gitignore/tree/master/Global
  
  (In svn, just add this line into ~/.subversion/config
   global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo  *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store *.class
  )
  
  
• How do I configure ignores specific to a project?
  In the project directory, you can create or edit either the file .git/info/exclude or .gitignore. It has the same format as the global ignore.
  
  (In svn,
  Configure .svnignore as local ignore file:
  svn propset svn:ignore -F .svnignore /path/to/svn/workspace
  
  Configure just one ignore:
  svn propset svn:ignore "files_to_ignore" /path/to/svn/workspace
  
  Configure a group of ignores:
  svn propedit svn:ignore /path/to/svn/workspace
  
  View what is ignored
  svn propget svn:ignore /path/to/svn/workspace
  )