Plurrrr

Wed 28 Dec 2022

Billions of unnecessary files in GitHub

The way to make sure that neither we nor anyone else adds these files to the git repository by mistake is to create a file called .gitignore, include patterns that match the files we would like to exclude from git and add the .gitignore file to our repository. git will ignore those file. They won't even show up when you run git status.

Source: Billions of unnecessary files in GitHub, an article by Gabor Szabo.