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		pilif on March 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing the .DS_Store File Format (2018) yes. it's in-fact there. But that's one more level of indirection from the "problem" at hand (because the global excludes file needs a config setting for it to even be considered, whereas .git/info/exclude is present in every repo)

matijs on March 28, 2023 [–]

> because the global excludes file needs a config setting for it to even be considered

Using `~/.config/git/ignore` requires no extra setting.

pilif on March 28, 2023 | [–]

Oh. TIL. Thank you

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