On Dec 13, 2012 9:22 AM, "Chen Xiao" <<a href="mailto:chenxiao770117@gmail.com">chenxiao770117@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > I fork the codebase on my local computer. Then I .configure & make & make install, as a result, there are many compiled things like bin or *.o files. > > To avoid add them to my commit, I modify .gitignore to ignore them all. Add your local ignores to .git/info/exclude.