I wanted to create a template .gitignore to start using when I need to keep some dotfiles (eg .configrc) in my github remote repo. Here's a situation, and maybe someone has an answer. When you have the following directories under a main directory "foo" ("bar", "bash", "bin"), and you do a "git init" (while inside the "foo" directory). Then while still inside main directory "foo", you create a ".gitigno