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This is more of a personal note. You may find it useful too.

Here’s how to ignore files and folders using Git. You can create a file “.gitignore” and place in the files and folders that you wish to ignore (separated with a line break).

In the file: “./.gitignore”

Here’s a list of standard things to do a .gitignore. It ignores the thumbnail files generated by Mac OSX and Windows. (I’m on Windows Vista.) You can place this on the top folder of your Git project:

“nbproject” is for NetBeans.

In the file: “./app/.gitignore”

Well, if you use CakePHP, you may want to add an additional .gitignore file in your CakePHP app directory:

I am open to suggestions what other files or folders are good to ignore but these are all I can recall. You can read more about gitignore at kernal.org.

Possibly related:

1. Ubuntu is so hard, but I like it
2. NetBeans 6.5 released
3. NetBeans IDE 6.7 Milestone 3 released
4. One more example why SVN sucked

This entry was posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 6:36 pm and has been tagged cakephp, git, gitignore, ignore, mac os, netbeans, suggestion, version, windows. Comments RSS feed.