Git, ignored files appear in every branch

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I have a repo test-repo, it contains two branches master and dev. Any files / directories that are in the master branch's .gitignore files appear locally in both branches when I git checkout to them, I assume this is normal behaviour as those files aren't being tracked by Git so they're just in the test-repo directory no matter what. I don't want this to happen. My ideal setup is like below:

When I git checkout master the local file / directory structure should be like so:

test-repo/
  .gitignore (this file just contains `should-be-ignored.md`)
  should-be-ignored.md
  should-only-show-in-master.md

When I git checkout dev the local file / directory structure should be like so:

test-repo/
  should-only-show-in-dev.md

If anyone has any idea on how to achieve this setup I'd really appreciate it.

asked 45 secs ago

Tom

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