I edited your comment to properly show the double dashes.

I hate Wordpress for that ;-)

I have the habit of working in a directory per project (be it an article or a mini code project). So I create one repo per project.

Note that I don’t necessarily push them to a remote server. I’m only talking about using git as a powerful local undo button :-)

@Brian

Wow, cool trick :-) My bash skills are not high enough for me to pretend I understand all of that little script. But I’ll definitely give it a try. Thanks!

If you want to add something to your local repo’s .gitignore, you can create an alias which will make it easier:

git config −−global alias.ignore ‘!f () { local ignore_file=$( git rev-parse −−show-cdup ).gitignore arg; for arg in $*; do echo $arg >> $ignore_file; done; sort -u -o $ignore_file $ignore_file; }; f’

Git will do tab-completion on the alias (provided you use git’s bash-completion, “git ig” will complete to “git ignore” for you), each argument will be appended to the .gitignore file (without you having to figure out the correct parent path), and the file will then be sorted and duplicates tossed.