There are files which one would like to pull from a remote branch but not have git register said person's changes on said files Let's have a file named: .gitpullfromremotebutdonotregistermylocalchanges Of course, we can think of a better name By register I mean detect, like when git status detects changes that are not staged for commit Use case: On GitHub, you clone a repo with a default config file (skeleton) You custom the config file with personal tokens and values If the config filename was in .gitpullfromremotebutdonotregistermylocalchanges Then the following don't have to be worried about: 1. The developer (the remote branch maintainer) doesn't have to not have a default config file (skeleton) because it was in .gitignore 2. Pushing your secrets -- Anonymous
