Ignoring files

Sometimes you might not want git to track certain files (for example compressed files like .rar). To do that, create a .gitignore file and add exceptions there.

Here’s an example of a .gitignore file that ignores compressed files with extensions (such as .rar, .zip etc)

*.7z
*.dmg
*.gz
*.iso
*.jar
*.rar
*.tar
*.zip

In case if you wanted a predefined template head to gitignore.io and search for your programming lanugage, ide and OS

Alternatively you can also head to github/gitignore to download gitignore templates

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