Dec 15

Some suggestions for .gitignore

This is more of a personal note. You may find it useful too.

Here’s how to ignore files and folders using Git. You can create a file “.gitignore” and place in the files and folders that you wish to ignore (separated with a line break).

In the file: “./.gitignore”

Here’s a list of standard things to do a .gitignore. It ignores the thumbnail files generated by Mac OSX and Windows. (I’m on Windows Vista.) You can place this on the top folder of your Git project:

nbproject
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db
Desktop.ini

“nbproject” is for NetBeans.

In the file: “./app/.gitignore”

Well, if you use CakePHP, you may want to add an additional .gitignore file in your CakePHP app directory:

tmp/**/*
config/database.php

I am open to suggestions what other files or folders are good to ignore but these are all I can recall. You can read more about gitignore at kernal.org.

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“Some suggestions for .gitignore”
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  1. Wow, that “no comments” button is not that intuitive.

    Anyway, note that there’s also .git/info/exclude which is not checked into the repository itself (or something). Check the FAQ (http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq).

    Thanks for the article!

    I use Netbeans for Ruby and PHP and everything else, too…

    Jul 21

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