Git: .gitignore file for LaTeX projects

.gitignore

*.aux
*.glo
*.idx
*.log
*.toc
*.ist
*.acn
*.acr
*.alg
*.bbl
*.blg
*.dvi
*.glg
*.gls
*.ilg
*.ind
*.lof
*.lot
*.maf
*.mtc
*.mtc1
*.out
*.synctex.gz

Excellent! Thanks for this!

I might consider adding '*.synctex.gz'.

Thank you! Good idea, I added it.

Why not use this instead:

$ cat .gitignore
*
!myfile.tex

Because it's decently rare that a .tex file exists by itself, there's BibTeX files, figures, usually some sort of misc notes you want (I even have a rake file using rake-latex from Oxford Uni).

All that said, if you really do have a .tex file in isolation, that's a good solution :)

excellent, just what i need! thanks.

Thank you for this great file !
I forked it for Mac users : https://gist.github.com/871983

Cool! Thank you!

If using latexmk to manage the compile process, add *.fdb_latexmk

I added *#* to my list to not track the emacs backup files.

I added *.pdf since this is an output file and not a source file. The same could apply to *.dvi.

Thanks !, very useful.

if using the pagebackref option of the hyperref package you also get a *.brf file.

I would sort it alphabetically :) Good one!

While for AUCTeX you also get files like:
region.*
prv__.fmt
prv__.log

Thank you Stefan, this is nice and useful. You may also want to include *.lol (List of Listings), produced by the listings package.

Thank You, indeed. My "manuscript" got rather large and manually tracking changes piecemeal got unmanageable, thankfully I opted way back then to compose it in \LaTeX so now that I've been able to regenerate it from ancient source, I'll be able to track it, too.

Just what i was looking for, great! What about adding *.pdf? And for TexMaker users

*.bak
build/

is useful also.

nice. thanks!

Yay! Cheers!

Thanks!

BTW, biber creates *.bcf and *.run.xml files.

*.snm and *.nav for beamer!

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up my fat repo!

I see multiple comments suggesting adding *.pdf, but as of yet it was not included.. Is there an argument to leave it out?

This is perfect, Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks :)

joostrijneveld: adding *.pdf to a standard .gitignore is a bad idea since pictures in latex documents often are included in pdf format.

I would also argue that it's pretty convenient for someone not interested in editing the document to have easy access to the output pdf file, without having to download any non-common packages and building it manually.

Thanks!

Hi,

Thanks for your sharing. I propose to add *.run.xml which is generated by biber.

I propose to add *.xdy which is created by xindy, an index processor. You can find the addition in my fork.

Thank you!

Thank you from a very new git and latex user!

i am new to git, and i want to share latex project over here, with all the figures, bib files and tex file.

thanks as well!
would it be possible to add a line that excludes the .pdf file if there is a corrisponding .tex file?

Nice, thanks for sharing. I suggest adding *eps-converted-to.pdf to remove the PDF files generated by epstopdf.

ordered ascending: https://gist.github.com/tobiasschuerg/d535a00dd81dea5150b8

There is also https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/TeX.gitignore

Thanks a bunch!

Thx. Some things to add:

• *.fdb_latexmk
• *.xml
• *.pdf
• *.fls
• *.bcf
• *.pyg

Thank you

Thanks! This is very useful

*.bcf
*.run.xml

This is great, thanks.

Thanks... very good!

I might consider adding '*.brf'.

I usually add *.tex~ and *.tex.backup.

Thanks !

I needed to also add:

    *.nav
    *.snm
    *.vrb

I add:

*.ps

I added

*.log
*.pdf

Excellent! Thank you very much for sharing.

*.brf
*.bst
*.nls
*.nlo

Thanks you so much. 💯 👍

*.thm

Thanks!

Thanks a lot!

Thank you, I added some entries

*.aux
*.glo
*.idx
*.log
*.toc
*.ist
*.acn
*.acr
*.alg
*.bbl
*.blg
*.dvi
*.glg
*.gls
*.ilg
*.ind
*.lof
*.lot
*.maf
.mtc
*.out
*.bak
*.run.xml
*blx.bib
*.synctex.gz

How nice! Thank you very much!

Thanks! This was a good thing to share.

Why not just ignore everything first and whitelist directories, *.bib, and *.tex files?

Sounds good 👍

TexStudio has the following extensions list in tools -> clean
log,aux,dvi,lof,lot,bit,idx,glo,bbl,bcf,ilg,toc,ind,out,blg,fdb_latexmk,fls

.bcf
.blg
.sav

For merging artifacts you can also add
.mine
.bak
.r2
.r4

Maybe also .out.ps?

For those who use JetBrains and TeXiFy-IDEA plugin.
Create MyLatexProject/.gitignore and copy/paste this content instead:
/out/.aux
/out/.glo
/out/.idx
/out/.log
/out/.toc
/out/.ist
/out/.acn
/out/.acr
/out/.alg
/out/.bbl
/out/.blg
/out/.dvi
/out/.glg
/out/.gls
/out/.ilg
/out/.ind
/out/.lof
/out/.lot
/out/.maf
/out/.mtc
/out/.mtc1
/out/.out
/out/*.synctex.gz