Question

I have push and successively clone a repository with git. I have noticed that git have automatically excluded Configure directory.

Where is this setup? Where I can inform Git to consider that folder too?

Answer 1

How do you know that it is automatically excluded?

There are a couple of things to look for:

• Have a look in the folder itself for a file called .gitignore. Putting a .gitignore file in a directory is one way to exclude the contents of a directory. It can either list the file patterns to ignore, or a * which will exclude everything.
• Have a look in the repository root for the .gitignore file, this will list all the ignores for the repository.
• It’s unlikely in your case, but have a look for a file ~/.gitconfig, which may contain a top level entry called [core] with the key excludesfile this points to a file which is used as the .gitignore file for all your projects on that system.

For example here is what I have

[core]
    excludesfile = ~/.gitignore

I wrote about the three major ways of excluding files in git elsewhere.