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When I cloned a repo from GitLab to local, it along with source code it also pulled a file in the root folder caller .gitignore.
There is also a folder called .git which contains a directory in info contains a file called exclude.
Which one is the one that does the ignore (to me ignore and exclude mean the same)? Is it the ignore or exclude?
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They both contain "ignore rules" - filename patterns for which matching untracked files should be ignored.
The difference is that rules in .gitignore are shared through the repo, whreas rules in info/exclude are not. So if for some reason you need to locally ignore certain paths in a single clone, you would use info/exclude; but if a path should be ignored in all clones, you would use .gitignore
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