Ignore but not .gitignore

I had an instance where I wanted to ignore the WordPress plugin Query Monitor. But I didn't necessarily want to commit that to .gitignore. It's only my local environment I care about right now.

I found this blog post by Luis Dalmolin that helped me - https://luisdalmolin.dev/blog/ignoring-files-in-git-without-gitignore/#:~:text=To%20ignore%20untracked%20files%2C%20you,tracking%20any%20(untracked)%20file.

Summary

Essentially there is another location you can use to exclude files from git without using .gitignore.

.git/info/exclude

Seems to me it functions just like .gitignore only it's not committed to git so it won't impact others working on the repo.

I'm not totally sure it's not a bad footgun, but that's why I'm writing this post.