Ignore symbolic links in .gitignore

Question

Is it possible to tell Git to ignore symlinks ? I\'m working with a mixed Linux / Windows environment and, as you know, symlinks are handled very differently between the two

Answer 1

No, it is not possible to do this globally. However, if you have lots of symlinks here is a bash script that you can use to easily add them to your repo's .gitignore file:

for f in $(git status --porcelain | grep '^??' | sed 's/^?? //'); do
    test -L "$f" && echo $f >> .gitignore; # add symlinks
    test -d "$f" && echo $f\* >> .gitignore; # add new directories as well
done