the repo and you don’t even want it to be listed in the .gitignore file of the repository.
If you have multiple repositories, then there is a nice way to do it per user, using the core.excludesFile config property of git.
This might be set in your git install already (it wasn’t the case for me, but still worth to check it):
git config --global --get core.excludesFile If it returns path to a file, then just simply add your ignore pattern to that file (just a todo.