Being honest, I dislike the tone of this sort of clickbaity rephrasing of the article title. The actual title is "You must use your Global Git Ignore!" which is completely true; the nuanced observation from the article "Using the git ignore feature is great but it has limitations, which is why I think this file is overused and often incorrectly" is a worthwhile hook, and presented thoughtfully.<p>The title "Stop Using Git Ignore", which the author of the blog post chose for this submission, doesn't represent his actual article well, though it probably gets more upvotes on Hacker News. I wish he'd presented the article more accurately, as it's a worthwhile observation that, for example, we probably have so many .DS_Store files and .vscode/.idea directories that defining them once will save us some hassle.