From: Antony Male <antony.male@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 10:54:36 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac
Message-ID: <5198AF6C.8080402@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEe6bfC6F3sN_OXZYo1=bdwo01_7qFUEmbSWVFNaFZQrZUGdWA@mail.gmail.com>

On 18/05/2013 23:37, Peter Lauri wrote:
> Great, I have gotten the concept now :)
>
> My workaround for my problem is to rename the file to ....default and
> then all will work out well :) Copy the file then and locally modify
> it, but it will be in .gitignore so not tracked :)

Over in the #git IRC channel, we point users asking this question to 
https://gist.github.com/canton7/1423106. It contains that approach, and 
quite a few others.

Antony