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Tips and Traps

1. You can ignore files in the root directory only by prefixing a pattern with /. For example, if you want to ignore the file features.txt in the root directory only, you can add /features.txt into .gitignore.

Online Tools

• gitignore.io

• github/gitignore

Gitignore Example for Python

https://github.com/dclong/xinstall/blob/dev/xinstall/data/git/gitignore_python

Gitignore Example for Java

https://github.com/dclong/xinstall/blob/dev/xinstall/data/git/gitignore_java