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Learn Git in a Day

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Keep Junk Out of Your Repo
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Summary

Here is a quick reference for .gitignore patterns:

ConceptWhat It Does
.gitignoreTells Git which files and folders to ignore
* wildcardMatches any characters (e.g., *.pyc)
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