Two Git ignore files nobody told me about

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Because until very recently, the only way I knew to ignore a file in git was to add it to . gitignore. One catch: in a linked git worktree, . git is a file rather than a directory, so the path above won't work. The exclude file lives in the main repository's . git/info/exclude and covers every worktree.

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