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Ignore files locally without committing ignore rules

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.gitignore ignores files locally, but it is intended to be committed to the repository and shared with other contributors and users. You can set a global .gitignore, but then all your repositories would share those settings.

If you want to ignore certain files in a repository locally and not make the file part of any repository, edit .git/info/exclude inside your repository.

For example: 

# these files are only ignored on this repo
# these rules are not shared with anyone
# as they are personal                                              
gtk_tests.py
gui/gtk/tests/*
localhost
pushReports.py
server/
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Ignoring files and folders/
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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