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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: "exclude" and ".gitignore" for everyone
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:36:30 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <E6F58E6B-4ECF-4A55-9249-9A8BBFBDBC24@silverinsanity.com> (Brian Gernhardt's message of "Mon\, 1 Jun 2009 09\:58\:11 -0400")
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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

>  Generally, I'd suggest putting [...] your editor's garbage in
> exclude.

better: put them in a user-wide ignore file.

in ~/.gitconfig:

[core]
        excludesfile = /home/yourlogin/.gitignore

then put whatever you want in $HOME/.gitignore.

-- 
Matthieu