How to Add Linux Executable Files to .gitignore?

Question

How do you add linux executable files to .gitignore without giving them an explicit extension and without placing them in a specific or /bin directory? Most are named the same as the C file from which they were compiled without the ".c" extension.

Answer 1

Can you ignore all, but source code files?

For example:

* !*.c !Makefile 

Answer 2

I would explicitly put them in the project .gitignore. It's not elegant, but I imagine your project doesn't have that many of them.