Question

When doing:

>git status 

It shows a big list of .pyc files under ‘untracked files’. I don’t want it to show these, as it adds noise.

In other words, how do I make git ignore .pyc files all the time and for all projects?

EDIT

I’m not asking for a way to spread my ignored files to other people, I really just mean ‘for all projects’, meaning I don’t want to configure each new project to ignore .pyc files.

UPDATE

I should add that I’m working on windows, and my git is msysgit

Patterns which a user wants git to ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by the user’s editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by core.excludesfile in the user’s ~/.gitconfig.

Is .gitconfig a file or a folder? I don’t have such a thing in my home directory (C:\users\<myusername>\)

UPDATE2

Thanks everybody for the responses,

I solved the issues by using:

>git config --global core.excludesfile c:\git\ignore_files.txt 

and putting *.pyc in c:\git\ignore_files.txt

Answer 1

git config --global core.excludesfile 'c:\program files\whatever\global_ignore.txt' 

Then, add

*.foo 

to that file.