If you use Git, we recommend adding these lines to your top-level `.gitignore
` file:
FYI: your `
.gitignore
` is used to auto-populate the option `pants_ignore
`The `
pants_ignore
` option tells Pants which files to avoid looking at. Occasionally, you will want to ignore something with Git, but still want Pants to work on the file. See [Troubleshooting / common issues](🔗) for how to do this.