I’ve just started to learn C (using Thinking In C) and I’m wondering about what files I should be ignoring in a C project’s git repository.
No suggestion can be too obvious — I’m a total noob. Thanks!
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I’ve just started to learn C (using Thinking In C) and I’m wondering about what files I should be ignoring in a C project’s git repository.
No suggestion can be too obvious — I’m a total noob. Thanks!
I guess there will be a few generated files that you don’t wan’t to be sticking in your repo (assuming your build output dir is in your git heirachy):
GIT ignore files are something I tend to do iteratively. “Hey, I don’t need those things in my repo” …
Edit: re dmckee’s comment
Yep, you definately want to be ignoring swap files, temp files etc. I have the following as a baseline for my .gitignore: