How to create a file under git and then not track it?

Question

git

I want to create local config files. How can I add it to the project so that others can download the default configs, but my local changes are not written to git?

Answer 1

Examples are usually created for configs, but the configs themselves are ignored.
For example: config.yml is ignored and next to it is config.dist.yml, or config.examle.yml

Answer 2

.gitignore