gitignore_global

Stow package for ~/.gitignore_global. Wired into git via [core] excludesfile = ~/.gitignore_global in git/.gitconfig.

Table of contents

• Layout
• What’s in it
• What’s not in it
• Fresh-machine setup

Layout

What’s in it

OS, editor, and tool noise that shouldn’t appear in any project:

• macOS: .DS_Store, ._*, .Spotlight-V100, .fseventsd, …
• Linux: .directory, .Trash-*, .nfs*
• Windows: Thumbs.db, Desktop.ini
• Vim: *.swp, *~, .netrwhist
• IDEs: .idea/, .vscode/, *.sublime-workspace, .history/
• ctags / LSP caches: tags, .ccls-cache/
• direnv: .direnv/
• pre-commit / lefthook caches
• Generic: *.bak, *.orig, *.rej

What’s not in it

Per-project artifacts (node_modules/, __pycache__/, dist/, target/, *.pyc, build dirs, etc.) stay in each project’s own .gitignore. A global ignore for those would mask bugs in repos that should be excluding them deliberately.

Fresh-machine setup

stow gitignore_global
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global   # already in git/.gitconfig