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gitignore #20

Open bboscoe opened 7 years ago

bboscoe commented 7 years ago

Tuan, do you want to explain gitignore? Just a thought for the group.

followthesheep commented 7 years ago

Sure, .gitignore is a file that tells git to ignore files in the directory that you don't want to put into the repository. This mostly is to prevent lots of temporary files or machine specific files from being put into the repository.