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comment by brewmarche · 2026-09-06 · in .gitignore Everything by Default

But they do: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/VisualS... You need to merge the relevant ignore files to create one specific for you, so if you use VSCode on macOS VisualStudioCode.gitignore (e.g., .vscode) +…

comment by brewmarche · 2026-09-06 · in .gitignore Everything by Default

Because it's insufficient? https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Rust.gitignore for example still falls victim to basically all of the issues specifically called out.

comment by piker · 2026-09-05 · in .gitignore Everything by Default

…the gitignore templates for every programming language officially recommended by github itself - https://github.com/github/gitignore - funny how I did not see a single comment talk about this

comment by vivzkestrel · 2026-09-05 · in .gitignore Everything by Default

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story by terminalbraid · 2026-05-06 · 0 comments

…that. Personally, I just grab a gitignore file from GitHub and make a few tweaks here and there: https://github.com/github/gitignore/

comment by saila · 2026-02-23 · in Git's Magic Files

…!*.go !go.sum !go.mod !README.md !LICENSE # ...even if they are in subdirectories !*/ [0] https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/community/Gola...

comment by austinjp · 2025-09-05 · in .gitignore Everything by Default

…to be for "Continuous Tests" [0] found through git blame [1] [0] https://continuoustests.com/ [1] https://github.com/github/gitignore/commit/2183a6c531d7085e2...

comment by fishgoesblub · 2025-09-03 · in Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

Somebody didn't know about https://github.com/github/gitignore

comment by karunamurti · 2025-07-29 · in .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean

…might fit if you shave off the square enough but large repos don't do this, they use a round peg: https://github.com/github/gitignore

comment by elijahwright_ · 2025-07-28 · in .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean

Cool post. I highly suggest using templates from https://github.com/github/gitignore for your project as they tend to include a lot of files commonly found in them - eg .idea folders and so on.

comment by davydm · 2025-07-26 · in .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean

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story by 0x00cl · 2025-06-21 · 0 comments

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story by mooreds · 2024-09-22 · 0 comments

…have it all in one huge file, but has a somewhat comprehensive template repo of many ecosystems: https://github.com/github/gitignore (This is what is used to populate the templates if you ask GitHub to include a gitignore when creating a…

comment by WorldMaker · 2024-07-23 · in Show HN: Lisp in C#

You might want to put __pycache__ in your .gitignore, check here for example: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Python.gitigno...

comment by steve1977 · 2024-07-19 · in Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark

…considering the GitHub .gitignore template for Node only ignores .env.local, not .local.env: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Node.gitignore...

comment by Timon3 · 2023-08-19 · in Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files

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story by peter_d_sherman · 2022-11-23 · 4 comments

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story by behnamoh · 2022-11-05 · 1 comment

…Air Traffic Control. Github provides a Unity gitignore template, maybe it's best to start here? https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignor...

comment by smoldesu · 2022-08-13 · in Ask HN: Why is version control so hard?

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Let's improve GitHub's recommended Perl .gitignore

story by hawkeyedan · 2022-05-09 · 1 comment

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story by gjsman-1000 · 2022-04-01 · 220 comments

…pycache, pyc files). They make your repo very heavy. Take a look at this example .gitignore : https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Python.gitigno...

comment by cors-fls · 2022-02-25 · in Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

I would recomend recommend adding the language specific .gitignore file. (edit) https://github.com/github/gitignore

comment by scns · 2021-10-06 · in It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

Interesting... a git commit is almost always represented as a diff... example: https://github.com/github/gitignore/commit/991e760c1c6d50fdd... Whether it's represeented as a diff internally seems completely irrelevant to me, even to…

comment by brabel · 2021-06-17 · in Nobody has found a use case for blockchain

Useful for Mac users: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/macOS...

comment by saagarjha · 2020-11-14 · in Pimp My Microwave

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story by tosh · 2020-10-28 · 0 comments

That's not the only problem. Apple leaves a whole bunch of "mac droppings" all over the place: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/macOS... The worst part is that .DS_Store assumes, even on remote (SMB) filesystems, that…

comment by kstenerud · 2019-07-03 · in .DS_Store

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story by febin · 2018-06-19 · 0 comments

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story by panchtatvam · 2018-02-14 · 1 comment

…I followed the similar steps for https://gitignore.io I was doing a lot of development work and going to github.com/github/gitignore to copy templates from GitHub's website to my own file system was getting tedious. What I wanted was a…

comment by joeblau · 2018-01-10 · in Turning a side project into an open-source project

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story by bsilvereagle · 2017-10-18 · 0 comments

You shouldn't put your node_modules into git. Try using this git ignore. https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Node.gitigno...

comment by brian_herman · 2017-09-10 · in A macOS app to generate app icons

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story by TheGovernor · 2017-05-07 · 1 comment

https://github.com/github/gitignore

comment by ciupicri · 2017-01-26 · in Create .gitignore files for your project

…cache/internal files for most of the packages. edit : The .gitignore files that are served are from https://github.com/github/gitignore

comment by snehesht · 2016-05-28 · in Show HN: Gitignore.xyz – Get .gitignore files on the fly

…and dev env dependent and they don't seem to be made for the same environment. Hardly comparable. https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Ruby.gitigno... https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Rails.gitign...

comment by pmontra · 2016-05-10 · in Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's .gitignore has

Just use this as your .gitignore file for every project https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Emacs...

comment by kyllo · 2016-05-10 · in Show HN: Hydrogen, a multithread non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust

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story by lin0 · 2015-11-20 · 1 comment

What advantage does this have over just grabbing the file from https://github.com/github/gitignore directly?

comment by filmor · 2015-10-02 · in Joe – CLI Python tool for generating .gitignore files

…By the way GitHub has a repository of .gitignore files for various tools and languages [1]. [1]: https://github.com/github/gitignore

comment by ciupicri · 2015-06-17 · in Why do you not make the code available under a 'source code repository'?

…any case, this .gitignore is almost entirely the standard GitHub setup for Visual Studio projects. https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio...

comment by djur · 2014-12-07 · in Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

…they all live in .idea. Github has a nice .gitignore build for these (and other common ignores): https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/JetBr...

comment by ericcholis · 2014-06-13 · in Write Clean, Professional, Maintainable, Quality Code in Python

…Urgh this is an annoying new step to node development Someone should tell github the new way... https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Node.gitigno...

comment by tlarkworthy · 2014-03-28 · in The npm debacle is partly your fault (and here's what you can do about it)

…a 2.3 app. (tho i can't find a .gitignore for it https://github.com/fortuity/rails3-gitignore https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Rails.gitign...

comment by gtani · 2013-07-26 · in How to hack a Rails app using its secret_token

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Gitignores for (almost) every language

story by rickyrickyrice · 2013-07-10 · 0 comments

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story by morphics · 2013-04-04 · 0 comments

You could try to partially reuse: https://github.com/github/gitignore Which try to be a gitignore database.

comment by gcmalloc · 2013-02-16 · in Show HN: Generate useful .gitignore files for your project

Maybe not so intrusive, but they could add it to https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Ruby.gitigno... . Not sure how many people use that repo tough.

comment by enkrs · 2012-12-26 · in Reminder: secret_token.rb is named so for a reason

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story by taylorbuley · 2012-05-01 · 0 comments

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story by goodwink · 2012-02-02 · 0 comments