How to ignore file in git?

@giovanny.lueilwitz 

To ignore a file in Git, you can create a .gitignore file in the root directory of your Git repository and specify the files or directories you want to ignore. Here's how you can do it:

1. Create a .gitignore file in the root directory of your repository if one doesn't already exist.
2. Open the .gitignore file in a text editor.
3. Add the file or directory you want to ignore to the .gitignore file. You can specify files using their relative paths or use wildcards to match multiple files. For example:

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# Ignore a single file
file.txt

# Ignore all files with a specific extension
*.log

# Ignore a directory and all its contents
folder/

1. Save the .gitignore file.
2. Commit the changes to the Git repository by running the following commands in the terminal:

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git add .gitignore
git commit -m "Add .gitignore file to ignore specific files"

1. The specified files or directories will now be ignored by Git and will not be included in future commits.