What is the difference between IntelliJ "ignored files" and the .gitignore

Question

IntelliJ offers a dialog for "ignored files" which does not pull in data from the .gitignore file I have in my base directory. Should the ignored files dialog be used? Does it create a .gitignore file anywhere? I'm going through this tutorial.

Answer 1

This dialog will ignore files only when working with IDEA, while .gitignore should be used for excluding files globally, either when working with version control from IDEA or from the command line git.

This dialog doesn't create .gitignore.