Some common .gitignore configurations

.gitignore

# Compiled source #
###################
*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so

# Packages #
############
# it's better to unpack these files and commit the raw source
# git has its own built in compression methods
*.7z
*.dmg
*.gz
*.iso
*.jar
*.rar
*.tar
*.zip

# Logs and databases #
######################
*.log
*.sql
*.sqlite

# OS generated files #
######################
.DS_Store
.DS_Store?
._*
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
ehthumbs.db
Thumbs.db

GIT with it

Thanks, Octocat!

*.pyc would be a good addition here.

So convenient! Thanks Octocat!

Useful stuff, thanks!

*.pyo and *.pyc and *~ (backup files generated by text editors)

even *.bak & *.swp as well can be added

Of course GitHub would give their logo an account. Awesome

It's good, thanks. But how to ignore some directories, such as target, out, production?

Great resource - many thanks for sharing.

Some examples with directories per https://gist.github.com/ThomsonTang suggestion would help round out this already excellent tip

Thank you for this great contribution!

Thanks used this a number of times on projects

I think .dll files are important if you're developing with .NET.

Also, you could include .ai, .eps, and .psd on it.

Thanks, for the great snippet.

nice! you should add sass-cache folder too ;)

Awesome.

awesome document. thanks.

Hi, I added some IDE files (of NetBeans, Eclipse and Zend Studio) to ignore. Look at:
https://gist.github.com/zpetr/e783d537f8a40bb6ec16

Surely, *~ and *# for emacs users

Very helpful. Thanks

How I can ignore a specific directory ?

very helpful :)

Thanks Octocat !

tags

Helpful 👍

.iml :)

Add these to exclude media extensions:

Images

*.jpg
*.gif
*.png
*.svg
*.ico

Video

*.wmv
*.mpg
*.mpeg
*.mp4
*.mov
*.flv
*.avi
*.ogv
*.ogg
*.webm

Audio

*.wav
*.mp3
*.wma

Fonts

*.eot
*.ttf
*.woff

.idea
(PHPStorm)

This gist is pretty much defunct by https://github.com/github/gitignore

.orig files generated by git diff

I love .gitignore thank you

Some windows files too;

Thumbs.db
desktop.ini

To ignore backup files generated by text editor anywhere in the subdirectory

**/*~

To ignore IDE (eclipse / intellij) related files

.classpath
.project
.settings
.idea
.metadata
*.iml
*.ipr

And What about Iconr?

This is very helpful. Thanks guys

@arulrajnet @cptstarling it is not recommended to ignore entire .idea directory. Instead we should add only the two lines below to local .gitignore file:

/.idea/workspace.xml
/.idea/tasks.xml

This way all good project configuration (for example Code Style, namespaces mapping, etc) will be shared among all team.

Good! Now I can git on with my work ^^

Thanks that really helped

What if I want to ignore all .txt files, but one? For example all the txt files out, but keep important.txt ?

*.log isn't working for me. I have the logs 'server.log', 'connected.log', and 'visitorcount.log' in a folder named 'logs', and GitHub Desktop keeps asking me to commit the files whenever they are modified.

I'm using Notepad to add these updates and have rebooted GitHub Desktop. Is there any weird technical feature that I am missing?

for vim users

*.swp
*.swo

Thanks, add to my file, and add npm install modules directory
/node_modules/*

Thanks man.

😘

👍

Wonderful, yo~

for vim
*.un~

Here's a more robust version of the vim ignores for your global .gitignore:

**/*~
**/*.bak
**/*.sw[abcdefghijklmnop]

Thank you . Quite a useful example.

It is strange that no one mentioned http://www.gitignore.io - web ui to https://github.com/github/gitignore

Thanks 👍

@hppavilion1 you should add **/ prefix. It'll include all subfolders as well.

ex:

**/*.log*

Should *.sql really be ignored? I've seen instances where raw migrations are saved in .sql format and would be important to commit.

*.png
*.jpg
*.jpeg
*.gif
*.bmp
*.svg
*.ico
*.psd

does adding .gitignore inside the .gitignore file affect anything generally?

\#*\# would also be worth adding.

And *.sublime-workspace for those who use SublimeText. It's important not adding these files, for security reasons.

And I agree with @ScottyMJacobson, *.sql files are important for some projects, I'm used to adding the initial version of the database this way. Suits me well... any advices?

• .gitignore to default list.

vim swapfiles (*.swp) should be added as those do not belong into a repository

thanks so much

Great resources

https://github.com/github/gitignore

thanks , nice work!!

Very useful!

Neat! Thanks.

Huge help, thanks.

Thank you.

# OS generated files #
######################
.DS_Store
.DS_Store?
._*
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
ehthumbs.db
Thumbs.db

Should be located in ~/.gitignore

Here is a project I'm maintaining for gitignore templates - https://www.gitignore.io

I'd add *.msi to my package section.
But thanks Octocat! much easier than finding them myself.

Might want to add this specific file example (keys.js) into your .gitignore file if you are using API keys to keep that info private and not copied.

Thanks a lot Octocat!

Thank you for your helpful work!

Really handy, thanks!

Thank you for this great contribution! i use it every time 👍

• .env

.vscode

++++

where to put this in case of GitHub Desctop App on windows system?

.pyc also

Very useful and handy. Thanks a lot

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Node.gitignore

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11968531/what-to-gitignore-from-the-idea-folder/39568390#39568390

This is so useful!! Thank you

A note on .sqlite:
Currently, on a fresh Django installation, the default database name is db.sqlite3, so maybe .sqlite3 should be in here as well?

desktop.ini not listed 😮

well done

Gittin' jiggy wid it.

We should also add target folder in .gitignore , which is generated by maven as build outcome along with packaged files, as:
target/
*.jar
*.war
*.ear

Global git ignores seem to be quite improper when a person is using git-annex. I first experienced this a couple of years ago: umeboshi2/dotfiles@49292a1

Today, while trying to update the git-annex repo for http://ifarchive.org I found a few more. Please add some language that qualifiy the suggestions from github to allow for the addition of certain "ignores" that may need to be tracked above git, yet still be under the constraints of the ignore file.

In all honesty, the suggestions from this gist, with respect to the config being global, and also the use of git-annex, has eliminated many of your suggestions. Even my opinion on *~ wasn't met by http://ifarchive.org. My ignore file is here: https://github.com/umeboshi2/dotfiles/blob/master/gitignore_global

Please understand that I was actually surprised by a "filename~" existing on the mirror and had to really .think about the ignore file. That was not your suggestion, but I was surprised anyway.

My purpose for the comment is to encourage github to provide some sort of "disclaimer" that these files may not need to be ignored.

It's very possible that git-annex may want to "ignore" the global ignores and have it's own global ignore file and not respect the global git ignore config. I will try to bring that point across to Mr. Hess if able.

GOOD

Please also add *.apk to it, thanks.

Also remember to add

*.

Mac OS seems to have no problems with filenames ending with a period, but Windows does, and GIT on Windows will not interact with a Repo which has any files with this hanging period.

Thanks, Bud!

thanks!

Very helpful; thanks!

Thank you for this, my friend! It will surely complete my .gitignore file ☺️

Good, thanks 😄

Thanks Octocat you hero

I agree with @ScottyMJacobson and @giovannipds that *.sql should not be ignored. I've seen them used both for initial database setups and for storing complex queries.

Thanks

tags should be a good addition here

+1 on removing .sql from this list, Rails can save the schema files as structure.sql which should be checked into version control.

See: https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html#types-of-schema-dumps

Thanks ! 👍

Thanks for published

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Most excellent. Thank you.

Can we ignore web.Config file using gitignore file

Awesome!

Helpful stuff, thanks!

In case you have a private key:
*.pem

Great! Thanks ;)

xcuserdata
for Xcode

Nice, geezer.

For sublime users: *.sublime*

Thanks for this, unfortunately *.exe doesn't exclude exe files.
:(

Thanks!

How about cloud secrets keys? Is there a way to ignore this .pem etc files.

It is strange that no one mentioned http://www.gitignore.io - web ui to https://github.com/github/gitignore

+1

thanks

It is strange that no one mentioned http://www.gitignore.io - web ui to https://github.com/github/gitignore

+1

+100

It's good, thanks. But how to ignore some directories, such as target, out, production?

Use dirname/. Replace dirname with the directory path.

I have created a fork to ignore these extra files:
*.pyo, *.pyc, *~, *.bak, and *.swp, here.

Thanks!

This gist is pretty much defunct by https://github.com/github/gitignore

5 years later and this link is still KING!!