[hk1337]

I don’t do the * in the gitignore because I use the confit alias and disable showing untracked files. That way I can use the .gitignore in the home as my global gitignore

I love the bare repo method though. I’ve been using it for several years and haven’t had a need for another

[yencabulator]

You can use ~/.config/git/ignore (core.excludesFile).

[hk1337]

Is that an automatic/default setting or did you just pick that path and you have to set the ignore filename in .gitconfig? Because, I know I could name it ~/.gitignore_global too.

[yencabulator]

That's the default path, you can change it. Original comment has the config variable.

[hk1337]

that's pretty cool. I didn't realize that. when I first started that wasn't how it was being used so I never picked up on it. Using .config/git/ saves me a couple of lines in the config file.