For many years I've have a git-ignored ".not-committed" folder in all of my repos for throwing extra anything into. It's been a huge life saver!

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Zambyte 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You can just add it in a user-level gitignore instead of ignoring it in every repo. See: ~/.config/git/ignore

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zelphirkalt 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This has the disadvantage though, that this user level gitignore file will not be in the repo, which means that other less careful contributors have to fix ignoribg for themselves.

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saghm 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I only realized very recently that being able to specify .gitignore files in any part of a repo can be combined with wildcards to just put `.gitignore` with `*` in a arbitrary directories to make them get ignored without needing to modify any wider configuration.

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der_gopher 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yes, but user level is not a repo level

	▲	sReinwald an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but this is exactly the sort of thing that should be a user-level configuration. A personal scratch directory has nothing to do with the repository itself and doesn’t belong in a repo’s .gitignore. If it's only needed for one particular checkout, .git/info/exclude is the other obvious option.