Creating a .GITIGNORE file in Git: Git and Github Tutorial Series (Video 8)

.gitignore files are important when you don't want git to track a certain file. This is useful when you do not want to track password files, large data files, or coding notebook checkpoint files (.ipynb_checkpoints). It is important if using coding notebooks (specifically in Python) that you create a .gitignore before pushing any code if you want to ignore the checkpoints folder.

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