macos - How to ignore Icon? in git

Question

While trying to setup a dropbox folder with git, I saw a "Icon " file which is not created by me. I try to ignore it in the ~/.gitignore file. But adding Icon Icon Icon? won't work at all.

Answer 1

You can use vim as well.

1. vim .gitignore
2. in a new line write Icon, then
3. press ctrl+v and then press Enter
4. repeat step 3
5. save and exit (shortcut: ZZ)

Now you should have Icon^M^M and it's done :)

For a smarter use you could add it to your gitignore global config file in ~/.gitignore_global.