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• All text files stored under
windows/
will use
CRLF
• All text files stored under
mixed/
will always preserve original line end-
ings
• All other text files will use
LF
Hint
This solution is used within a jQuery project. Thanks to the
* eol=lf
rule
stored in the
.gitattributes
file, all text files are always encoded using
LF
as an
end-of-line character; no matter what your platform and configuration.
13-8. Ignoring automatically generated
files
Problem
You start a new project in which some tools generate temporary files. You do not want
to commit them into the repository. The temporary files in your project conform to the
following rules:
• They are stored within the /
tmp/
directory.
• Their name ends with the
.abc
extension.
Therefore, you want to ignore the files that match the two following patterns:
/tmp/
*.abc
You want to share the rules for ignoring files with all the developers who work on
this project.
Solution
Initialize a new repository: