How to Hide Generated Dart Files in GitHub PRs

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If you use build_runner and your generated Dart files are added to Git, you can hide them by default in your PRs and diffs.

To do this, simply add them to a .gitattributes file at the root of the project with these contents:

*.config.dart linguist-generated=true *.freezed.dart linguist-generated=true *.g.dart linguist-generated=true *.gen.dart linguist-generated=true *.gr.dart linguist-generated=true

As a result, all the files matching the extensions above will appear like this on GitHub:

Here's what the official GitHub docs say about this:

To learn more about code generation in Dart, read this ultimate guide on my site:

Happy coding!

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