Good way for git to ignore build folders in C++ project?

Question

I'm currently working on a C++ project and use git for version control.

Now, we're using the git repo folder as the main project folder, so every time a change is pushed, it includes the relevant build folders ( build-ProjectName-Desktop-Debug sorta style folder )

I'm aware of gitignore being a thing, can I somehow tell that to ignore all folders whose name starts with build- ?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use wildcards in your .gitignore file.

So for example:

build-*