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Mine is

    aux
and I hide it by putting a .gitignore in it that just contains am asterisk (*), nothing else, that way it ignores itself and anything in it.
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Does Windows still go crazy when making an “aux” or “con” directory or has this been patched?
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Genius idea.
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The next Elon musk.
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I do this too! But I call it `.local`
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I have a new-repository script that creates a .local directory and puts a .gitignore with just `*` in it.
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Doesn't git automatically exclude all files starting with a dot?
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