Add Ignore Files Specific To Your Workflow as a git til

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+# Ignore Files Specific To Your Workflow
+
+_If you want to watch instead of read, I explore this in [Four Ways to Ignore
+Files with Git](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip06v7Wnfz0)._
+
+The most common way to tell git to ignore files is to add them to a project's
+`.gitignore` file. This file is kept under version control, so it is shared
+with anyone who clones the project.
+
+What about ignoring files that shouldn't necessarily be recorded in the
+project's `.gitignore`?
+
+For instance, let's say I create a `notes.md` file to write some project notes
+to myself or keep track of a few todo items. This file is just for me. I don't
+want it committed. Because this `notes.md` is an idiosyncrasy of my workflow, I
+don't want to exclude it in the tracked `.gitignore` file.
+
+Instead, this file is a perfect candidate for the git repository's
+`.git/info/exclude` file. Git treats entries in this file the same as it does
+the `.gitignore` file. This file only exists on my machine and is not under
+version control.
+
+```
+# .git/info/exclude
+notes.md
+```
+
+Once I've added that line, `notes.md` will no longer show up as an untracked
+file when I run `git status`.
+
+See `man gitignore` for more details.