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Prefilled .gitignore Templates

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If you are unsure which rules to list in your .gitignore file, or you just want to add generally accepted exceptions to your project, you can choose or generate a .gitignore file:

Many hosting services such as GitHub and BitBucket offer the ability to generate .gitignore files based upon the programming languages and IDEs you may be using:

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Ignoring files and folders:
* Ignoring files and directories with a .gitignore file
* Examples
* Other forms of .gitignore
* Cleaning up ignored files
* Checking if a file is ignored
* Exceptions in a .gitignore file
* A global .gitignore file
* Ignore files already committed to a git repository
* Ignore files locally without committing ignore rules
* Ignore a file in any directory
* Ignoring subsequent changes to a file without removing it
* Ignoring files in subfolders, multiple .gitignore files
* Prefilled .gitignore Templates
* Create an empty folder
* Find files ignored by .gitignore
* Ignore only part of a file stub
* Ignore changes in tracked files. stub
* Clear already committed files but included in .gitignore
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