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

• http://cogniton-mind.tumblr.com/post/1423976659/howto-gitignore-for-different-branches
• You can create a global gitignore

create a ~/.gitignore in your user directory

.DS_Store 
*.pyc 
.svn 

then run: git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

• Emacs files

  \#*#

Since 1.6.2, \ should be supported in .gitignore