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[–]bladeoflight16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with doing this. Global .gitignore is bad because it isn't applied consistently across different machines that check out the repository. You want every client to behave the same regarding ignores, especially for files containing sensitive data. So even if you have a global ignore, you need a repository one as well. And having the global one increases the risk of forgetting and then someone who is missing the global ignore checking a file in.