When I run git status, it lists a bunch of .gitignore files that I am not interested in seeing in the list (they got updated locally by Eclipse). I browsed numerous posts in regards to this seemingly common issue but none of the suggested solutions worked for me.
E.g. I went into ~/.gitconfig and found that
excludesfile = ~/.gitignore_global
Then I went into that file and added .gitignore at the tail but that did not change anything.
How do I effectively ignore .gitignore files in git status so they don't clutter the view?