**æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist** @aescling@cat.family · Mar 01, 2026, 10:45

**æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist** @aescling@cat.family · Mar 01, 2026, 10:45

my hottest git take is that .gitignore is an antipattern

**æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist** @aescling@cat.family · Mar 01, 2026, 10:45

**æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist** @aescling@cat.family · Mar 01, 2026, 10:45

you shouldn’t be using git in a way where it would affect your workflow

**aschmitz** @aschmitz@lardbucket.org · Mar 01, 2026, 12:34

**aschmitz** @aschmitz@lardbucket.org · Mar 01, 2026, 12:34

aschmitz @aschmitz@lardbucket.org

@aescling Sometimes I don't need a thousand lines of git status for a directory I should be ignoring.

**æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist** @aescling@cat.family · 2026-03-01T12:40:08Z

@aschmitz git config status.showUntrackedFiles false is an option

**aschmitz** @aschmitz@lardbucket.org · Mar 01, 2026, 13:08

**aschmitz** @aschmitz@lardbucket.org · Mar 01, 2026, 13:08

aschmitz @aschmitz@lardbucket.org

@aescling But I also want it to catch files that need to be added and I missed.

**æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist** @aescling@cat.family · Mar 01, 2026, 13:09

**æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist** @aescling@cat.family · Mar 01, 2026, 13:09

@aschmitz that’s fair