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Actionscript.gitignore Fix comments on same line causing ignore to break Aug 11, 2017
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Agda.gitignore Add MAlonzo directory. (#2978) Mar 8, 2019
Android.gitignore Added aar file type to gitignore (#3233) Nov 17, 2019
AppEngine.gitignore Added template for Google App Engine Jan 16, 2015
AppceleratorTitanium.gitignore Added Appcelerator Titanium .gitignore file. Aug 23, 2012
ArchLinuxPackages.gitignore Add .jar, .exe and .msi May 28, 2015
Autotools.gitignore Update Autotools.gitignore. (#3337) Mar 12, 2020
C++.gitignore added prerequisites for C and C++ Jun 29, 2016
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Clojure.gitignore Add .gitignore for Leiningen projects Apr 8, 2011
CodeIgniter.gitignore Merge branch 'master' into codeigniter3update Feb 2, 2017
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Composer.gitignore Fix link to go to current anchor Oct 27, 2017
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Coq.gitignore Update Coq.gitignore after coq/coq#11075 (#3247) Nov 25, 2019
CraftCMS.gitignore Craft: update to follow official recs; add 'not necessary in v3' note Jun 22, 2018
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Dart.gitignore remove Jetbrain and MacOS related values May 28, 2018
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Drupal.gitignore Update Drupal.gitignore (#3329) Mar 11, 2020
EPiServer.gitignore ensure single trailing newline Mar 27, 2014
Eagle.gitignore Eagle: Remove duplicate entry Jun 18, 2018
Elisp.gitignore add final newline Oct 26, 2016
Elixir.gitignore ignore files generated by ElixirLS Nov 6, 2018
Elm.gitignore Ignore elm-stuff project-wide Jul 28, 2016
Erlang.gitignore Add rebar3 tool files and directories (#3178) Sep 16, 2019
ExpressionEngine.gitignore Merge pull request #488 from nanadevelopment/eeConfigAdd Nov 11, 2013
ExtJs.gitignore Adds some files Sep 7, 2017
Fancy.gitignore ensure single trailing newline Mar 27, 2014
Finale.gitignore ensure single trailing newline Oct 6, 2013
ForceDotCom.gitignore ensure single trailing newline Oct 6, 2013
Fortran.gitignore Link a new fortran template to existing c++ one Jul 16, 2014
FuelPHP.gitignore update FuelPHP.gitignore Dec 8, 2014
GWT.gitignore GWT: Remove duplicate entry Jun 18, 2018
Gcov.gitignore Capitalise initial letter in template filenames for consistency/sorting Jan 7, 2015
GitBook.gitignore Correct URL for NPM URL reference Feb 5, 2015
Go.gitignore ignore vendor directory (#3033) May 5, 2019
Godot.gitignore [Godot] Ignore imported translations (#3269) Jan 20, 2020
Gradle.gitignore Only ignore the build directory in the same directory as .gitignore f… Jun 24, 2016
Grails.gitignore Adding additional comments Sep 8, 2014
Haskell.gitignore Add *.hie to Haskell.gitignore (#3120) Jul 21, 2019
IGORPro.gitignore Create IGORPro.gitignore Dec 3, 2014
Idris.gitignore Add an Idris gitignore Feb 28, 2014
JBoss.gitignore correct capitalization problems and add Octave which link to MATLAB Nov 26, 2018
JENKINS_HOME.gitignore Improved JENKINS_HOME example (#3332) Mar 11, 2020
Java.gitignore Added NiFi .nar files Apr 12, 2018
Jekyll.gitignore Update Jekyll.gitignore (#2540) Dec 5, 2017
Joomla.gitignore Updating Joomla.gitignore to Joomla! 3.9.8 (#3090) Jun 23, 2019
Julia.gitignore Add more standard ignored files for Julia (#2992) Mar 14, 2019
KiCad.gitignore Add *.sch-bak to KiCad.gitignore (#3153) Aug 20, 2019
Kohana.gitignore ensure single trailing newline Oct 6, 2013
Kotlin.gitignore Symlink Kotlin.gitignore to Java.gitignore Feb 25, 2016
LICENSE Use the exact CC-0 license text Oct 28, 2016
LabVIEW.gitignore Ignore the .cache folder for LabVIEW projects May 9, 2018
Laravel.gitignore Update Laravel.gitignore (#3098) Jun 27, 2019
Leiningen.gitignore Update .gitignore with .cpcache Mar 18, 2018
LemonStand.gitignore ensure single trailing newline Oct 6, 2013
Lilypond.gitignore Add ignore file for lilypond. Feb 22, 2011
Lithium.gitignore The Lithium app should be the root repo folder Sep 1, 2012
Lua.gitignore Added a .gitignore template for Lua based projects. Jan 3, 2015
Magento.gitignore Remove patch files from repo Sep 25, 2018
Maven.gitignore Reference why to exclude binary jar, fixes #111 (#3154) Aug 20, 2019
Mercury.gitignore Mercury.gitignore: Add Mercury.modules Jan 9, 2015
MetaProgrammingSystem.gitignore Grammar/formatting tweak to comments Jun 12, 2014
Nanoc.gitignore Nanoc: Ignore tmp/nanoc/, not tmp/ Aug 29, 2017
Nim.gitignore Updated Nim.gitignore (#3172) Sep 10, 2019
Node.gitignore [Node] Add yarn v2 excludes (#3327) Mar 11, 2020
OCaml.gitignore Update OCaml.gitignore (#3010) Mar 21, 2019
Objective-C.gitignore Improving the documentation of Objective-C and Swift files (#3133) Aug 7, 2019
Opa.gitignore Added Opa.gitignore Mar 3, 2012
OpenCart.gitignore excluding vqmod cache files and logs Oct 15, 2016
OracleForms.gitignore added gitignore for Oracle Forms development Mar 19, 2012
Packer.gitignore Add crash.log to Packer.gitignore (#3230) Nov 8, 2019
Perl.gitignore spelling: utils Nov 8, 2017
Phalcon.gitignore Remove trailing asterisks in Phalcon rules Mar 21, 2014
PlayFramework.gitignore Added /project/project to PlayFramework.gitignore Feb 22, 2017
Plone.gitignore Covered by global vim template Nov 12, 2013
Prestashop.gitignore Update for Prestashop 1.7 (#3261) Mar 11, 2020
Processing.gitignore Ignore transpiled .java and .class files (#3016) Mar 27, 2019
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Python.gitignore [Python] adding IDE & static related stuff (#3317) Mar 13, 2020
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Raku.gitignore Changes the name of Perl 6 to Raku (#3312) Feb 19, 2020
RhodesRhomobile.gitignore Add Rhodes mobile application framework gitignore Nov 9, 2010
Ruby.gitignore Ruby: ignore RuboCop remote inherited config files (#3197) Oct 4, 2019
Rust.gitignore Update documentation link cargo.toml vs cargo.lock Mar 13, 2018
SCons.gitignore Update SCons.gitignore (#3001) Mar 18, 2019
Sass.gitignore Add all sourcemap file formats May 24, 2018
Scala.gitignore [Scala] remove external tools excludes. Feb 16, 2017
Scheme.gitignore Add Scheme.gitignore Aug 22, 2015
Scrivener.gitignore Added new checksums and allows for relative directories (#3128) Sep 20, 2019
Sdcc.gitignore ensure single trailing newline Oct 6, 2013
SeamGen.gitignore Update SeamGen.gitignore Jul 31, 2012
SketchUp.gitignore Add gitignore for sketchup backup files. Jan 18, 2012
Smalltalk.gitignore Merge pull request #2027 from rejurime/dolphin-smalltalk Nov 23, 2018
Stella.gitignore Capitalise initial letter in template filenames for consistency/sorting Jan 7, 2015
SugarCRM.gitignore ensure the following ! rules are included May 15, 2017
Swift.gitignore Improving the documentation of Objective-C and Swift files (#3133) Aug 7, 2019
Symfony.gitignore Ignore logs for Symfony4 Aug 8, 2018
SymphonyCMS.gitignore added symphony and workspace/uploads dir Apr 11, 2012
TeX.gitignore Changed TeX to not ignore tikz files by default. (#3320) Feb 25, 2020
Terraform.gitignore docs: update Terraform.gitignore (#2998) Mar 14, 2019
Textpattern.gitignore Added Textpattern gitignore Jan 17, 2012
TurboGears2.gitignore Add for TurboGears2 (based off of Python template) Nov 9, 2010
Typo3.gitignore Merge pull request #1646 from josefglatz/TYPO3-improvements Jun 17, 2018
Umbraco.gitignore Add ignore to umbraco folder (#3307) Feb 21, 2020
Unity.gitignore Add Unity's Addressables and Android's temp files. (#3311) Mar 11, 2020
UnrealEngine.gitignore Revert "add the *.VC.db to unreal engine ignore" Jun 18, 2018
VVVV.gitignore ensure single trailing newline Mar 27, 2014
VisualStudio.gitignore Add Win32/ to gitginore list (#3308) Mar 12, 2020
Waf.gitignore Waf: Be more explicit in patterns Mar 24, 2016
WordPress.gitignore Updated ignored list (#2972) May 12, 2019
Xojo.gitignore Ignores *.xojo_uistate Sep 14, 2014
Yeoman.gitignore Create Yeoman.gitignore Oct 21, 2013
Yii.gitignore Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into pr/506 Nov 11, 2013
ZendFramework.gitignore Remove double-spaced lines Sep 12, 2017
Zephir.gitignore Added comments for Zephir Jun 21, 2014

README.md

A collection of .gitignore templates

This is GitHub’s collection of .gitignore file templates. We use this list to populate the .gitignore template choosers available in the GitHub.com interface when creating new repositories and files.

For more information about how .gitignore files work, and how to use them, the following resources are a great place to start:

Folder structure

We support a collection of templates, organized in this way:

  • the root folder contains templates in common use, to help people get started with popular programming languages and technologies. These define a meaningful set of rules to help get started, and ensure you are not committing unimportant files into your repository
  • Global contains templates for various editors, tools and operating systems that can be used in different situations. It is recommended that you either add these to your global template or merge these rules into your project-specific templates if you want to use them permanently.
  • community contains specialized templates for other popular languages, tools and project, which don't currently belong in the mainstream templates. These should be added to your project-specific templates when you decide to adopt the framework or tool.

What makes a good template?

A template should contain a set of rules to help Git repositories work with a specific programming language, framework, tool or environment.

If it's not possible to curate a small set of useful rules for this situation, then the template is not a good fit for this collection.

If a template is mostly a list of files installed by a particular version of some software (e.g. a PHP framework), it could live under the community directory. See versioned templates for more details.

If you have a small set of rules, or want to support a technology that is not widely in use, and still believe this will be helpful to others, please read the section about specialized templates for more details.

Include details when opening pull request if the template is important and visible. We may not accept it immediately, but we can promote it to the root at a later date based on interest.

Please also understand that we can’t list every tool that ever existed. Our aim is to curate a collection of the most common and helpful templates, not to make sure we cover every project possible. If we choose not to include your language, tool, or project, it’s not because it’s not awesome.

Contributing guidelines

We’d love for you to help us improve this project. To help us keep this collection high quality, we request that contributions adhere to the following guidelines.

  • Provide a link to the application or project’s homepage. Unless it’s extremely popular, there’s a chance the maintainers don’t know about or use the language, framework, editor, app, or project your change applies to.

  • Provide links to documentation supporting the change you’re making. Current, canonical documentation mentioning the files being ignored is best. If documentation isn’t available to support your change, do the best you can to explain what the files being ignored are for.

  • Explain why you’re making a change. Even if it seems self-evident, please take a sentence or two to tell us why your change or addition should happen. It’s especially helpful to articulate why this change applies to everyone who works with the applicable technology, rather than just you or your team.

  • Please consider the scope of your change. If your change is specific to a certain language or framework, then make sure the change is made to the template for that language or framework, rather than to the template for an editor, tool, or operating system.

  • Please only modify one template per pull request. This helps keep pull requests and feedback focused on a specific project or technology.

In general, the more you can do to help us understand the change you’re making, the more likely we’ll be to accept your contribution quickly.

Versioned templates

Some templates can change greatly between versions, and if you wish to contribute to this repository we need to follow this specific flow:

  • the template at the root should be the current supported version
  • the template at the root should not have a version in the filename (i.e. "evergreen")
  • previous versions of templates should live under community/
  • previous versions of the template should embed the version in the filename, for readability

This helps ensure users get the latest version (because they'll use whatever is at the root) but helps maintainers support older versions still in the wild.

Specialized templates

If you have a template that you would like to contribute, but it isn't quite mainstream, please consider adding this to the community directory under a folder that best suits where it belongs.

The rules in your specialized template should be specific to the framework or tool, and any additional templates should be mentioned in a comment in the header of the template.

For example, this template might live at community/DotNet/InforCRM.gitignore:

# gitignore template for InforCRM (formerly SalesLogix)
# website: https://www.infor.com/product-summary/cx/infor-crm/
#
# Recommended: VisualStudio.gitignore

# Ignore model files that are auto-generated
ModelIndex.xml
ExportedFiles.xml

# Ignore deployment files
[Mm]odel/[Dd]eployment

# Force include portal SupportFiles
!Model/Portal/*/SupportFiles/[Bb]in/
!Model/Portal/PortalTemplates/*/SupportFiles/[Bb]in

Contributing workflow

Here’s how we suggest you go about proposing a change to this project:

  1. Fork this project to your account.
  2. Create a branch for the change you intend to make.
  3. Make your changes to your fork.
  4. Send a pull request from your fork’s branch to our master branch.

Using the web-based interface to make changes is fine too, and will help you by automatically forking the project and prompting to send a pull request too.

License

CC0-1.0.

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