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The rules for the patterns you can put in the .gitignore file are as follows:


Blank lines or lines starting with # are ignored.
Standard glob patterns work.
You can end patterns with a forward slash (/) to specify a directory.
You can negate a pattern by starting it with an exclamation point (!).


Glob patterns are like simplified regular expressions that shells use. 
An asterisk (*) matches zero or more characters;
 [abc] matches any character inside the brackets (in this case a, b, or c); 
a question mark (?) matches a single character; 
and brackets enclosing characters separated by a hyphen([0-9]) matches 
any character in the range (in this case 0 through 9) .


Here is another example .gitignore file:
# a comment - this is ignored
*.a       # no .a files
!lib.a    # but do track lib.a, even though you're ignoring .a files above
/TODO     # only ignore the root TODO file, not subdir/TODO
build/    # ignore all files in the build/ directory
doc/*.txt # ignore doc/notes.txt, but not doc/server/arch.txt