I do this with docker. Insane that the default is to recursively ship all of PWD.

Use the -u flag instead of -a. Doesn't add new files, just existing ones.

It's a neat approach for the current problem of untracked dotfile accumulation.

The real problem is that the entire reason to use git at this point is because of the conventions established around it. There are better VCSes and methods now, but they "break" the conventions of git (which honestly sucks, but it is what it is).

I use this strategy on my home directory for tracking dotfiles.

Put gates in place to block all .freeadvertising folders except for the ones that the project relies on.

If people want to apply this mechanism, it shall be not much of a hassle for writers of most (modern) programming languages, as they mostly have some `src/` directory (maybe also some `tests/`) that contains all source codes for a quick `git add`.

For Golang users, I dunno...

Not particularly well-considered opinion I’ve mulled over for a few years: Git on macOS should ignore .DS_Store and ._* by default. Would this cause any problems?

Use ~/.config/git/ignore to ignore files in all repositories

"Works on my machine" accelerationism

i am not sure why this has been upvoted this is such a bad advice...