From 7778ed75f9415815d2c26d80eb93d1af3b3114a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:50:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Hint at not contributing user-specific Git ignores

---
 .gitignore | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 33cedd75f8d..78cd84318a8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@ $/tests/fixtures/commit-graphs/
 
 # newer Git sees these as precious, older Git falls through to the pattern above
 $**/fuzz/Cargo.lock
+
+# Instead of adding more environment-specific ignores here, like for the IDE in use, prefer Git's user-global
+# `core.excludesFile` mechanism, see https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-coreexcludesFile.