Question

Hi
With Rails3 the rails new command creates a .gitignore file. As I have a few files from my editor that should be not committed, I don’t want to add them to this standard gitignore file everytime I create a new rails application. How can I change the standard .gitignore file?

Answer 1

Just create a global .gitignore file in your home folder and put your ignores for your editor files in that. You need to run this command to get git to pickup the global gitignore file:

$ git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore