Continuing our examination of ways of influencing Git’s behaviors and settings, today we look at how to utilize a global .gitattributes and how to specify file handling without modifying the repository’s .gitattributes file.

You’ve seen the file, but do you understand it’s purpose? Git has the ability to customize how it handles the files you edit. Today we explore how that works.

Git is a powerful tool with lots of options to simplify how you work. Today we explore how to specify files and folders to automatically ignore for all local repositories, as well as how to configure Git tracking without a local .gitignore.