how to tell egit to ignore some file types

Question

In my project I have some file types (consider for ex *.xls) which I don't want it to be committed .Every Time when I commit this *.xls files will come in the list I need a solution so that egit ignores it

If I right click on the file and click ignore it works but I have huge list of tree files inside many folders which contains *.xls files

I know .gitignore file will ignore the files but it should be in every directory where the ignored files should be there its very huge collection of folders so is there a way to ignore only specified file types

I am using egit in eclipse

Answer 1

Adding

*.xls

to your .gitignore file will do the job.