My Keil projects often store a .username file which I want to ignore using gitignore.
I thought I could do *.$(echo %username%) in my .gitignore, since echo %username will print my name in the regular Windows prompt. I am using git bash, and appearently it cannot fetch these global variables (path, username, appdata etc).
How can I achieve my goal?
The patterns written in a .gitignore file are completely static, you can't use a language like shell to make advanced patterns.
Instead, you could use an additional .gitignore file local to your copy of the repository:
git config core.excludesfile .my_gitignore
This command tells git that there is an extra file in which it should look for file patterns to ignore (here, the file is named .my_gitignore).
That is a local configuration, therefore, every user will have to issue the same command and create their .my_gitignore file by hand to add a static *.username rule, but everyone will have their own (and only theirs).
Thats not working then your .gitignore file is modified and you have to commit them.
The best way is to save that files in a seperate ignored folder. you find a schema to exclude them. For example
/user/something/.*
But modifying your .gitignore is not the right way in that case i think.
