I am not sure if this is ubuntu specific as I just switched from windows. Please let me know if I should ask this elsewhere.
I am using version control for some local repositories. Some of the files have a ~ at the end and I don't need these files. For example, I have test.m and test.m~ simultaneously. Other text files have the same issue too.
I want to include ALL files that end with ~ in .gitignore but I am unsure how to proceed.
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a line with *~ in your .gitignore file should do it. Here is an example from the default .gitignore file for my yelp-tools git clone:
$ cat /home/doug/temp-yelp-git/yelp-tools/.gitignore *~ INSTALL Makefile Makefile.in /aclocal.m4 /autom4te.cache /ChangeLog /config.guess /config.log /config.status /config.sub /configure /install-sh /intltool-extract.in /intltool-merge.in /intltool-update.in /missing /tools/yelp-build /tools/yelp-check /tools/yelp-new /xslt/mal-ncx.xsl /xslt/mal-opf.xsl 
