.gitignore helps me manage my commits by setting which files or
directory don’t end in my repository. I know two good practices if you work for
example on an open source project:
- You don’t commit your IDE configurations
- Not use .gitignore file for exclude IDE configuration, because this is personal problem. There are differents IDE, if all devs exclude this files on a repository level the lists is very long.
I follow this practices for all my projects, if you are Mac user you have a DS_STORE files, there is a method for exclude this file of default.
~./.gitconfig is your configuration file, every user has it. If you execute this command
$. git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_globalinto this file it write thiese lines
[core]
excludesfile = /Users/gianarb/.gitignore_global/Users/gianarb/.gitignore_global is my global gitignore file!
# IDE #
#######
.idea
# COMPOSER #
############
composer.phar
# OS generated files #
######################
.DS_Store
.DS_Store?
._*
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
ehthumbs.db
Thumbs.db