.GITIGNORE File

File extension gitignore is associated with Git, a version control system developed by Linus Torvalds for various platforms that can run on local machine also as server app.

These .gitignore files are text configuration files used by Git used to determine which files and directories to ignore, before user make a commit.

Files with gitignore extension can be most often encountered as special data files for Git versioning system. These stores information about files that Git should intentionally ignore.

How to open:

It is likely that these files are only useable in Git.

How to convert:

As far as we know, there exists no way how to convert *.gitignore files to any other format.