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Say I have a staging area that has some additional files necessary for the staging area, that I don't want in my repository. Nor do I want to actually include those ignore patterns in the shared .gitignore file.

Ideal what I'd like to do is have a kind of "local only" .gitignore for just that environment, in addition to the shared .gitignore. Is that possible to do?

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    If your staging area is in a separate directory, you can just put a .gitignore in that directory - it doesn't have to be at project root. Commented May 22, 2016 at 3:50

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Yes, you can use:

$GIT_DIR/info/exclude .git/info/exclude

It is local to the repo, and won't be pushed.
It works for untracked files.

The other approach to ignore files (already versioned) temporarily would be 

git update-index --skip-worktree -- [<file>...]
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Since .gitignore has a higher precedence, I'm afraid this cannot work.
@ElpieKay Why? If those additional files are not in the local .gitignore, they will be ignored by the exclude file.
Don't forget git config core.excludesFile (usually set with --global, but can technically be set per-repo), which defaults to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore

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