Feature Request

[Clement Sello Tsetsa <clementsellotsetsa@gmail.com>]

Greetings;

My name is Clement and I am a second year student at NWU university in
South Africa studying towards a bachelor's degree in information
technology, i just recently learned about Git and it is a fascinating
piece of technology. This is my first time making a feature request
for anything and please excuse me if it is not up to your standards in
any way. Please read the below text as it is the feature request:

When initializing a Git repository, allow specifying file types to
track using the command git init <file>. If no file type is specified,
Git should track all file types by default. Additionally,
automatically create the .gitignore file during initialization, and as
new file types are created, add them to the ignore list. Later, when
adding files to the staging environment, Git will already know which
types to include or ignore using the git add <file> command.

I think the user should not have to create the .gitignore file in the
future if this is implementable.

Kind regards
CS Tsetsa