Git Ignore

Create the file ~/.gitignoreas shown below to not track files that are almost always ignored in all Git repositories.

touch ~/.gitignore

Open the .gitignore file using your favourite text editor and add these below:

# Folder view configuration files
.DS_Store
Desktop.ini
.LSOverride

# Icon must end with two \r
Icon

# Thumbnail cache files
._*
Thumbs.db

# Files that might appear on external disks
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes

# Files that might appear in the root of a volume
.DocumentRevisions-V100
.fseventsd
.Spotlight-V100
.TemporaryItems
.Trashes
.VolumeIcon.icns
.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent

# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
.AppleDB
.AppleDesktop
Network Trash Folder
Temporary Items
.apdisk

# Compiled Python files
*.pyc

# Compiled C++ files
*.out

# Application specific files
venv
node_modules
.vscode
.sass-cache

Or simply download macOS specific .gitignore maintained by GitHub itself and put contents of it to~/.gitignore.

Note: You can also download it using curl

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Global/macOS.gitignore -o ~/.gitignore

If your gitignore file isn't working, you probably need to set up your global core.excludesfile configuration file to point to this global ignore file.

git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore'