Unity and GitHub issues with changes to Metadata

So I've been using Unity for a group school project for a couple of months now. As this is a team project, me and at least one other developer have been using GitHub to keep track of our work and share updates between our computers.

Main problem (headache, rather) is whenever I do anything, inevitably git bash tells me that Unity has changed several dozen files of metadata and other small changes in the Library folder. I'm assuming this is related to the current running of Unity, saving logs, etc.




This happens with pretty much every git status/push/pull/update related command I do, when I try to switch branches, merge branches, etc. etc. It will tell me that I have untracked changes, or that I can't merge because there are merge conflicts with these changes, etc. These changes (which I'd assume were temporary) don't go away if I quit out of my Unity editor entirely and then attempt to add/commit/push, which is what I've tried to standardize to get rid of this problem.

So far, nothing detrimental has occurred. However, I've been set back an hour or so trying to figure out which combination of commands will allow me to update my local repository to what my teammate has pushed, and continue my work.

So my question is, is there a standard way to deal with this issue in Unity? Is there a way to "ignore" these small changes that unity makes while I'm working? Or am I doing something wrong entirely?

This is a pretty open-ended question and is more asking what the best workflow is between github and Unity, and if this is a standard problem. I can provide more details if needed.

 

@marc_tanenbaum Thanks! Maybe if I'd thought a bit harder I would've figured I could gitignore the lib folder, as I know it will reimport itself. I think I'll go with that, as our project isn't very large.