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A practical approach to Git version control that reverses the typical .gitignore strategy by ignoring everything by default and explicitly allowing only necessary files. This prevents accidental commits of system files, build artifacts, and IDE configurations by using wildcard patterns to block all files initially, then selectively permitting specific file types like source code and configuration files.

.gitignore everything by default

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or instead do “git add file_you_actually_want_to_commit” instead of “git add .”. Problem solved

Better approach would be to make automatic creation of your custom <code>.gitignore</code> file whenever you execute <code>git init</code> command.

Suppressing “untracked” files by default takes away part of control:
<ul>
<li>What is this?</li>
<li>Why does this appear here?</li>
<li>Do we really need those intermediate artifacts to be produced? (simple piping stuff from one application to another can save a lot of space in some scenarios)</li>
<li>Why application logs started to appear in different folder?</li>
<li>Shall I generate all those filed manually or include them into build process? Or it is better to generate them once and then put into some “artifactory storage” for future reuse, etc…</li>
</ul>

I always start a repo with a .gitignore picked from: <a href="https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore</a>
You just need to select what you’ll use in the project (tech stack, ide, OS) them the file will contain almost everything that you need by default

.gitignore everything by default means, that you don’t know your code, project, specyfication, you blindly staging and commit changes.