Question

Two examples I can think of are .gitattributes and .gitignore.

Can someone list all of them?

Answer 1

I grepped the git repository of git itself, and while I don’t think an official list exists anywhere, I did notice that all the ones I know about were mentioned in the git-config manpage (git help config). So with that, I did a search for "file" on that page, and here’s what I found:

• .gitignore – List of blobs for git to ignore. Affects commands like git add and git clean.
• .gitattributes – Let’s you define attributes on files (e.g., to change how files look in a diff).
• .mailmap – Lets you tell git that duplicate names or emails in the history are actually the same person. Affects commmands like git shortlog -ns, or git log --format="%aN <%aE>".
• .gitmodules – Let’s you define submodules (subdirectories of your git repository which are checkouts of other git repositories).
• *.keep – Something to do with making git gc ignore packs. I couldn’t find much info on this, so I’m not even sure if it’s a file that you commit to the repository or just something that lives in .git. If someone knows more please comment.

That’s all I found. I hope I didn’t miss anything.