alt Hacker News- or you could stop scratching your head so hard and actually use 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
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zarlss43 • today at 3:34 PM
These do not include os generated files like his first example, .DS_Store. I do use the templates, but I have a gist that I add to every project of os generated files that may work themselves in.
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buzzy_hacker • today at 3:48 PM
I like https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore because I can mix programming language files with OS ones
13415 • today at 3:35 PM
In my experience these templates don't cover enough and are always faulty. Not only that, most real-world projects use many different programming languages and markup languages.
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.