# git

# Git Ignore Scenarios

Broadly, there are three scenarios where one might want to ignore files. 

1. Specific to personal workflow 

   modify `.git/info/exclude`

3. Specific to project secrets  

   Scenarios like .env files for running a project locally. Here you can modifiy the repo level
   `.gitignore`
   
4. Always ignore


   If certain files should be ignored regardless of sitatuion, this can be configured globally. 
Unless otherwise configured in the `~/.gitconfig`, the ignore file will be found at `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.` if that value is not set or empty, check`$HOME/.config/git/ignore`.


## References 

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore