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This has been something that has plagued me for years and I’ve never sat down to properly fix it. Instead, I’ve just added .DS_Store to .gitignore files probably over one hundred times by over. Anyway, the git documentation mentions the existence of a variable called core.excludesFile. If you don’t set it, and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME isn’t overridden, you can add global ignores to $HOME/.config/git/ignore. Let’s see this in action. First we’ll make a brand new Git repository and add a .