6.4 .gitignore

git ignore  :

• whenever programmers develop a project, rather than source code, developers uses a lot of third party or development files like logs, class files , they don’t need in source code when we pushing to remote repository
• here we can use .gitignore, create a file with .gitignore in the working directory.
• add eliminated files like *.log or *.class , *.dev , save file ,
• when you add git add . , it won’t add log, class, log.

We can see with demo example:

(i) Created gitignore folder, and moved in to it

(ii) Created log files : tests.log, update.log, status.log files with in the folder

(iii) Created normal files : styles.css, support.js

(iv) Created .gitignore file

(v) Initialising the directory as git repository

(vi) Adding all files to staging area

(vii) Checking what files are added to staging area

(viii) Observation:

We can see only styles.css, support.js are added to staging area

Files having extension .log are skipped for moving into staging area