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kccqzy • yesterday at 11:06 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

That doesn’t make sense. I use my own global git ignore all the time because there are files that only I produce that I definitely don’t want committed (flycheck looking at you). A fresh clone wouldn’t contain these files because they are not committed in the first place. You will have to use a non-git transport mechanism to transfer the repo without also transferring your global git ignore.

Anyways this probably indicates that these repos don’t have a good code review process. The settings.local.json file name screams it’s local and shouldn’t be committed.


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pastel8739 • today at 4:17 AM

They're probably mostly just random solo people who barely even know what git is. This---that people who don't know how to code can code now--is the whole thing that AI companies love to advertise, and it's true. But it also means that tools need to stop people from doing stupid things, because they won't know that the things they are doing are stupid.