Not sure where I picked up this, but I’ve added this to my global Git ignore:

    attic

That way you can just create an attic directory in any project where you can keep random stuff that should never be committed. I’ve yet to find a repo which actually has such a directory checker in.

▲ weinzierl 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Mine is

aux

and I hide it by putting a .gitignore in it that just contains am asterisk (*), nothing else, that way it ignores itself and anything in it.

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trinix912 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Does Windows still go crazy when making an “aux” or “con” directory or has this been patched?

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metadat 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Genius idea.

	▲	addedGone an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The next Elon musk.

▲ williamjackson 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I do this too! But I call it `.local`

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zahlman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have a new-repository script that creates a .local directory and puts a .gitignore with just `*` in it.

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bflesch 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn't git automatically exclude all files starting with a dot?

	▲	micael_dias 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No