gitignore across all branches?

Question

Hey I\'m trying to get into git, as an emacs user first thing to do is to make sure the ~ and #*# files are ignored by git. Documentation talks about .gitignore which I\'ve been

Answer 1

Add this to your $HOME/.gitconfig ;

[core]
    excludesfile = /path/to/your/local/.gitignore

Then it'll be locally available on all your git repositories.