How to tell Git to ignore files that start with a specific word

October 17, 2021

If you want to tell Git to ignore files that start with a specific word you will need to add a `.gitignore` rule.

Let's say you want to ignore markdown files that start with a specific word like draft. Using the draft*.md pattern to match against this situation will do the job, just add it into your .gitignore file. As a side note, * is a 'wildcard' so it will match any word or character.

draft\*.md