Git Ignore (global)

Create the file ~/.gitignore as shown below to not track files that are almost always ignored in all Git repositories.

  1. # Folder view configuration files
  2. .DS_Store
  3. Desktop.ini
  5. # Thumbnail cache files
  6. ._*
  7. Thumbs.db
  9. # Files that might appear on external disks
  10. .Spotlight-V100
  11. .Trashes
  13. # Compiled Python files
  14. *.pyc
  16. # Compiled C++ files
  17. *.out
  19. # Application specific files
  20. venv
  21. node_modules
  22. .sass-cache

Or simply download macOS specific .gitignore maintained by GitHub itself and put contents of it to ~/.gitignore.

Note: You can also download it using curl

  1. curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Global/macOS.gitignore -o ~/.gitignore