如何忽略父目录（和git root）中的文件？

Question

Given git root with:

/Guardfile
/local (dir)
/.gitignore

And a .gitignore in local, how to ignore the Guardfile from the .gitignore within local?

Don't want to change the .gitignore at the root because that is checked into git.

I tried:

../Guardfile

and

/Guardfile

and

./../Guarfile

git version 2.17.2

Use case (because someone will probably say "Don't do that".). It's pretty obvious but I don't want to change the project .gitignore . I keep all the files that don't belong in git in the local dir. But Guardfile needs to be in root dir.

Answer 1

someone will probably say "Don't do that"

Don't do that.

If you want to ignore a file but not modify an existing .gitignore that's part of the repository, put that in:

.git/info/exclude

This files contents are additive with the .gitignore at the base of the repository, and since its in your .git directory, it cannot be checked in. Thus, it will be for your privately ignored files.