I was using .gitignore generated by an aliased touch function in powershell. Despite my best efforts, I could not get git to respect its gitignore. Figured out

I was using .gitignore generated by an aliased touch function in powershell. Despite my best efforts, I could not get git to respect its gitignore. Figured out the touched text file was utf-16 and basically not respected at all. Lesson learned I uuchanged a system default to utf-8 but just rely on my text editor now.