Make Git Globally Ignore Certain Files

Note: This was originally posted on my blog at https://therobinkim.com/blog/globally-gitignore-certain-files. Any updates will appear there and not here.

.DS_Store is annoying. I configured Git to globally ignore it.

I referred to Octocat’s Gist as the template for my .gitignore_global. I created and put my file in /Users/robinkim/code.

Next, I put the following command into my iTerm2: git config --global core.excludesfile /Users/robinkim/code/.gitignore_global

Magic.

Further Reading

• Ignoring Files
• Useful .gitignore Templates