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

You have to install git-extras for this. You can install it in Ubuntu using apt-get,

$ sudo apt-get install git-extras

Then you can use the git ignore command.

$ git ignore file_name