Is there an ignore command for git like there is for svn?

Question

I am a new user to git and I am starting a new project. I have a bunch of dot files that I would like to ignore. Is there an ignore command for git

Answer 1

I hope it's not too late.

If you are on Windows you can just do the following to create a .gitignore file

echo name_of_the_file_you_want_to_ignore.extension > .gitignore

In order to edit .gitignore you can run

notepad .gitignore