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Let Git/GitHub know which files to exclude from versioning
By default, Git/GitHub track any files that you have created, for example:
- large data files (that you wont be able to upload to GitHub),
- files that are generated by code (and hence need not to be versioned), and
- even sensitive passwords that you may have stored in your code accidentally.
Luckily, Git offers a convenient way to exclude files and directories from versioning.
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Create a new file in your project’s root directory, and call it
.gitignore(remember to use the.!) -
Edit the
.gitignorefile, and define which files or directories to exclude. For example,**/DIRNAMEexcludes any directory calledDIRNAME, and*pdfexcludes any PDF files. -
Save the
.gitignorefile, and rungit statusin your repository - the excluded files and directories won’t show up anymore!
Example
Check out a few example .gitignore files for inspiration, or copy-paste the following to your own .gitignore:
**/rbin/
**/raw/
*RData
*pdf
**/audit
**/input
**/output
**/temp
**/zip
*csv
*xlsx
*~*
*log
*.Rhistory
**/exports
**.ipynb_checkpoints
**__pycache__
*.log
slides/*.gz
slides/*.snm
slides/*.toc
slides/*.nav
slides/*.out
slides/*.aux
.RProfile