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I prefer to list individual directories and files in my ~/.gitignore so that I see when new files show up and I can decide whether to ignore them, commit them,

I prefer to list individual directories and files in my ~/.gitignore so that I see when new files show up and I can decide whether to ignore them, commit them, or prevent them from getting generated.

rollcat 4y ago
It tends to blow up "git status" if some random new piece of software (or random me) makes a random new subfolder, full of random things. You can override .gitignore for specific subfolders like .config, .emacs.d, etc.
- burntsushi 4y ago
  That's what I used to do, but I switched to Josh's strategy a couple years ago.[1] It doesn't "blow up" git-status. If some new piece of software creates a new directory with a bunch of random stuff in it, git-status will just show you the directory since it is is untracked, and not everything in it. [1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/965383e6eeb0bad40d10448ce57f040825f735a7/.gitignore https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/965383e6eeb0bad4...