Gitignore for Unreal Engine 5

gitignore

# Visual Studio 2015 user specific files
.vs/

# Compiled Object files
*.slo
*.lo
*.o
*.obj

# Precompiled Headers
*.gch
*.pch

# Compiled Dynamic libraries
*.so
*.dylib
*.dll

# Fortran module files
*.mod

# Compiled Static libraries
*.lai
*.la
*.a
*.lib

# Executables
*.exe
*.out
*.app
*.ipa

# These project files can be generated by the engine
*.xcodeproj
*.xcworkspace
*.sln
*.suo
*.opensdf
*.sdf
*.VC.db
*.VC.opendb

# Precompiled Assets
SourceArt/**/*.png
SourceArt/**/*.tga

# Builds
Build/*

# Whitelist PakBlacklist-<BuildConfiguration>.txt files
!Build/*/
Build/*/**
!Build/*/PakBlacklist*.txt

# Don't ignore icon files in Build
!Build/**/*.ico


# Configuration files generated by the Editor
Saved/*

# Compiled source files for the engine to use
Intermediate/*

# Cache files for the editor to use
DerivedDataCache/*

The .gitignore file provided by Github (at least I think it was provided by Github) also lists Binary Files. Is there a reason you didn't ignore them?

Binary Files

Binaries/*
Plugins//Binaries/

We tested it with the Unreal Engine 5 project Valley of the ancient. The default gitignore file did not work, because Unreal needed some modules to start the project. So when a collaborator was pulling that project, he could not start it. Removing Binaries and Plugins solved that problem for us. It can be that it's because of the "Plugins" folder only, but I would need to investigate further.

Thanks for the insight!