[judofyr]

Not sure where I picked up this, but I’ve added this to my global Git ignore:

    attic

That way you can just create an attic directory in any project where you can keep random stuff that should never be committed. I’ve yet to find a repo which actually has such a directory checker in.

[deathanatos]

You can also sort of invert this, but you have to do it on a case by case basis.

Let's say you have a directory like attic; you can put inside a `attic/.gitignore`:

  /**

& then that directory (and anything in it) is ignored, including the ignore file itself.

I usually name my version of this directory the single character U+1F4A9, which HN refuses to permit me to put in a comment ;)

[weinzierl]

Mine is

    aux

and I hide it by putting a .gitignore in it that just contains am asterisk (*), nothing else, that way it ignores itself and anything in it.

[trinix912]

Does Windows still go crazy when making an “aux” or “con” directory or has this been patched?

[fluoridation]

It's never going to be patched because it's not considered a bug.

[metadat]

Genius idea.

[addedGone]

The next Elon musk.

[williamjackson]

I do this too! But I call it `.local`

[zahlman]

I have a new-repository script that creates a .local directory and puts a .gitignore with just `*` in it.

[bflesch]

Doesn't git automatically exclude all files starting with a dot?

[groundcontr01]

Hey do you have a GitHub I can look at?

[micael_dias]

No

[thewisenerd]

mine's `scratch/`

hasn't tripped me up (yet)