Have you ever accidentally committed a bunch of junk created by your OS, like Thumbs.db files from Windows, or .DS_Store files from macOS? Or, have you joined a project, and for one of your first commits, added rules to the .gitignore file for your text editor’s project files? If so, this post is for you! You can avoid such pain or busywork by making a global ignore file.| adamj.eu
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When you use the Rust programming language toolchain, usually through a cargo command, it needs a place to store a bunch of config files, caches, and the cargo binary itself. By default, that place will be your operating system’s user directory, which I’m going to refer to as $HOME or ~, where it will put a .cargo folder.| PoignardAzur