A refactored and modern .gitignore for Magento. Compatible for Git versions 2.7.0+. See this revision to use it for versions lower than 2.7.0: https://gist.github.com/erfanimani/8856964/886f5d79d229c21b9c712155c362e5fc1c61a12a

.gitignore

### MAGENTO DIRECTORIES

# Ignore everything in media, except for the htaccess files
# Also include the Lazy Catalog Images (LCI) .htaccess if that's installed
# (https://github.com/AOEpeople/Aoe_LazyCatalogImages)
/media/*
!/media/.htaccess
!/media/customer/.htaccess
!/media/downloadable/.htaccess
!/media/catalog/product/LCI/.htaccess

# If you want, you can ignore the downloader completely
# See http://magento.stackexchange.com/a/16513
# /downloader

# Ignore downloader cache and configuration files
/downloader/.cache/
/downloader/cache.cfg
/downloader/connect.cfg

# Ignore var directory, except for the htaccess file
/var/*
!/var/.htaccess


### CONFIGURATION
# These are specific to each environment

/app/etc/local.xml
/errors/local.xml
/app/etc/enterprise.xml
/.htaccess


### MAGENTO MISC FILES
# .htaccess.sample and index.php.sample are used for creating new stores, so lets keep these.
# Also, patches might not apply cleanly if you don't have those files

# /.htaccess.sample
# /index.php.sample
/install.php
/README
/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
/php.ini.sample
sweet_tooth_license.txt
EVOLVED_EULA.rtf
/pkginfo/
/maintenance.flag
/includes/src/*


### TEMPORARY FILES

*~


### SNAPSHOT DUMPS

/snapshot/


### CSS AND SASS CACHE
# Ignore SASS cache and CSS except for base, default and RWD since these might be used in fallbacks
# Comment this whole section out if you're not using SASS

.sass-cache/
/sass-cache/
/skin/frontend/*/*/css/*
!/skin/frontend/base/default/css/
!/skin/frontend/default/default/css/
!/skin/frontend/rwd/default/css/


### BUNDLER
# If you're using bundler to manage Gems (like Sass, Compass, etc)

/.bundle/


### NPM

npm-debug.log
node_modules


### IDE'S AND/OR CI

.DS_Store
._*
Thumbs.db
*.sublime-project
*.sublime-workspace
/.idea
/.buildpath/
/.project/
/.settings/
/nbproject/
/module_sources/
/database_dumps/
.externalToolBuilders
*.scc


### TESTING

/firegento.php


### MODMAN

/.modman/


### COMPOSER

/vendor/*
!/vendor/.htaccess


### PROJECT SPECIFIC
# add your project specific gitignore entries here