add ignore file to git code example
Example 1: how to use gitignore to ignore a folder
You can ignore entire directories, just by including their paths and putting a / on the end:
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node_modules/
logs/
Example 2: how to put files into gitignore
$ echo debug.log >> .gitignore
$ git rm --cached debug.log
rm 'debug.log'
$ git commit -m "Start ignoring debug.log"
Example 3: how to git ignore a file
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global
Example 4: .gitignore
__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
*$py.class
*.so
.Python
build/
develop-eggs/
dist/
downloads/
eggs/
.eggs/
lib/
lib64/
parts/
sdist/
var/
wheels/
share/python-wheels/
*.egg-info/
.installed.cfg
*.egg
MANIFEST
*.manifest
*.spec
pip-log.txt
pip-delete-this-directory.txt
htmlcov/
.tox/
.nox/
.coverage
.coverage.*
.cache
nosetests.xml
coverage.xml
*.cover
*.py,cover
.hypothesis/
.pytest_cache/
cover/
*.mo
*.pot
*.log
local_settings.py
db.sqlite3
db.sqlite3-journal
instance/
.webassets-cache
.scrapy
docs/_build/
.pybuilder/
target/
.ipynb_checkpoints
profile_default/
ipython_config.py
__pypackages__/
celerybeat-schedule
celerybeat.pid
*.sage.py
.env
.venv
env/
venv/
ENV/
env.bak/
venv.bak/
.spyderproject
.spyproject
.ropeproject
/site
.mypy_cache/
.dmypy.json
dmypy.json
.pyre/
.pytype/
cython_debug/
Example 5: git ignore content of a folder
somefolder/*
!somefolder/.gitkeep
Example 6: how to add filer to git ignore
go to the gitignore file, add the name of the file to ignore