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Create a .gitignore file

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Check the repository root for an existing .gitignore file before creating one. Add a root-level .gitignore that ignores .log files; done means the file exists and .log files are excluded from Git tracking.

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Description

We need to create a .gitignore file and add .log files.

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