Can I make a user-specific gitignore file?

Question

I want to change the gitignore, but not everyone on the team wants these changes. How can a user have their own specific git ignore file?

Answer 1

As indicated in Atlassian's .gitignore tutorial, you could also use your repo's /.git/info/exclude file that you can easily edit with any text editor. It works the same as .gitignore.

I could easily ignore my intelliJ files, personal dockerfiles and stuff only I need to work with.