The Ignored files setting allows you to avoid synchronization of particular files.

You should not synchronize metadata of version control systems. By default, we exclude metadata files and directories of the most common ones: Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Subversion. If you use any other version control system, add its metadata files to the list.

The configuration has the same syntax as the .gitignore file.

This is a global (workspace-scope) configuration template. When a new project is created, this content is copied into the new project configuration. Therefore, any change of this configuration does not change configuration of any existing project.

See also Ignored Files in project configuration.