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Ignoring files

ignoring files

Given a situation:

$ touch thisShouldNotBeInGit.txt
$ git status
# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 2 commits.
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#	thisShouldNotBeInGit.txt
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

This is easy way to fix it:

$ echo thisShouldNotBeInGit.txt >> .gitignore
$ cat .gitignore  # -->read the contents of .gitignore
.gitignore
_site
thisShouldNotBeInGit.txt