gitignore

• .gitignore
• Ignores files you NEVER want to commit!
  • API keys, credentials, and other application secrets
  • Log files
  • Operating system files
  • dependencies and packages
  • You put these in a separate file
• Create .gitignore file at the root of a repo
  • Files: test.py
  • Ignoring folders & everything in it: folderName/
  • Extensions (wildcards): *.log
  • NOT ignoring: !important.log
• Usually there’s templates alr prepared
• Creating a useful .gitignore file
  • https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore

echo "*.log" > .gitignore
echo "node_modules/" >> .gitignore
echo "!keep.log" >> .gitignore

• you can just easily add stuff like this