I do the same, but in all the mess that git status outputs, I occasionally forget to git add some required source code - which leaves entire chains of commits i

I do the same, but in all the mess that git status outputs, I occasionally forget to git add some required source code - which leaves entire chains of commits in my repository in a broken, impossible to compile or run state. Worse, I don’t notice until I try to run the code on another computer - and find I’m missing data. Having a “local gitignore” makes a lot more sense. I’d like to be more explicit about which local files should be ignored.