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

If you created the gitignore file before creating the branches, it's obviously available in them. Otherwise you need to merge that file to other branches.

You can define a global ignore file with git config --global core.excludesfile [ignorefile].