Version Control Git (Part1-Part.11) [Git (Part.11)]｜Setting “.gitignore” and “.gitignore_global” (setting files not to be managed by Git)

Objectives of Chapter 11

Understand the outline of “.gitignore file” and “.gitignore_global file”.
Understand how to set “.gitignore file” and “.gitignore_global file”.

Overview of “.gitignore” and “.gitignore_global”

Overview of “.gitignore”

Overview of “.gitignore”

The “.gitignore” file is a configuration file for specifying files that are not included in Git’s management. “.gitignore” is placed in a Git Managed Directory.

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“.gitignore “ファイルをGit管理下のフォルダに配置すると、以降、この中に書かれたファイルはGitの管理の対象外となります。
→When a .gitignore file is placed in a Git-Managed directory, files written to it are excluded from Git’s control.

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.gitignore ファイル　→　.gitignore file

ファイルA→fileA, ファイルB→fileB

ワークツリー（ワーキングツリー）　→　worktree (working directory)

ステージングエリア　→　Staging Area

ローカルリポジトリ　→　local repository

Overview of “.gitignore_global”

Overview of “.gitignore_global”

With “.gitignore”, it is possible to exclude specified files from management in a directory under Git management.

However, if you have multiple Git managed directories in your PC, in some cases, it is time-consuming to create and set “.gitignore” in each directory.

In such cases, it is convenient to prepare one common setting and apply it to all directories managed by Git. This is done by “.gitignore_global”.

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「.gitignore_global」ファイルをホームディレクトリに配置すると、以降、Gitが管理しないファイルを共通で適用することができます。
→If you place a “.gitignore_global” file in your home directory, you can apply that setting commonly to each directory managed by Git.

Automatic generation service for “.gitignore”

With “.gitignore.io” (https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore), you can easily generate the file types and other information to be included in “.gitignore (.gitignore_global)”. In this book, copy and paste the generated contents into “.gitignore_global” and place it in your home directory.

※How to set up “.gitignore” and “.gitignore_global” should be decided for each project. In this book, “.gitignore_global” will be placed, but it does not mean that it is not a good idea to create “.gitignore” every time.

Access “https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore.”

If you enter “programming language name”, “framework name”, “editor name”, etc. in the input box, it will automatically output items to be excluded.

In this case, we have created the file by entering “Windows” and “Visual Studio Code”.

Create a “.gitignore_global” file and copy and paste the contents of gitignore.io displayed in your browser.

1. Go to your home directory with “cd” command.
2. Confirm the current directory by “pwd” command.
3. Create a “.gitignore_global” file by “touch” command.
4. Check the hidden files in the home directory with “ls -a”.

You can see “.gitignore_global”.

Open “.gitignore_global” in Visual Studio Code and copy and paste the contents generated by “gitignore.io”.

The following is a “.gitignore_global” file that copied the output of “gitignore.io”.

Overwrite, save and close.

The created “.gitignore_global” file must be activated. Activate it with the following command. For Windows

作成した「.gitignore_global」は有効化する必要があります。次のコマンドで有効化します。

For Windows
git config ｰｰglobal core.excludesfile “%USERPROFILE%\.gitignore_global”

For Mac
git config ｰｰglobal core.excludesfile ‘~/.gitignore_global’

How to set “.gitignore”

For “.gitignore” also, create a file with the “touch” command and write the necessary contents. You can also create the file using Visual Studio Code or Explorer.

As with “.gitignore_global”, you can also paste the content automatically generated by “gitignore.io”.

※In this section, only “sample.txt” is described in the “.gitignore” file, and we will confirm that this file is excluded from Git’s control.

First of all, We will create “sample.txt” using the “touch” command, and later, append this file name to “.gitignore” to exclude it from Git’s control.

We leave the file unstaged

Create a “.gitignore” file.

Open “.gitignore” and edit it.  Add “sample.txt” to the “.gitignore” file.

Save and close the “.gitignore” file. Check the status of files using the “git status” command. You can see that “sample.txt” is not listed in “Untracked files”.

The commit message is as follows

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続けて「.gitignore」ファイルをステージングしてコミットします。

Staging and committing the “.gitignore” file.

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That’s all for this article. In the next article, we will explain how to register a GitHub account.

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