Can I make a user-specific gitignore file?

In their .gitconfig:

[core]
    excludesfile = ~/.global_gitignore

That way, they can ignore certain types of files globally. Each user can have their own global ignore file.

You can create your own .gitignore using

git config --global core.excludesfile $HOME/.gitignore

Then put your desired entries in that file.

For user-specific and repo-specific file ignoring you should populate the following file:

$GIT_DIR/info/exclude

Usually $GIT_DIR stands for:

your_repo_path/.git/

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