I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Rather than have just a project-specific .gitignore, which could contain the world, have one per project and a global config that includes all the common trash files (like the __MACOSX and .DS_Store files that Macs leave littered around the place, or Thumbs.db that Windows generates) and a generic list of IDE trash like .nb_project or whatever.
Some OS and applications are really quite bad citizens but it doesn't need to add commits to your project.
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Rather than have just a project-specific
.gitignore, which could contain the world, have one per project and a global config that includes all the common trash files (like the__MACOSXand.DS_Storefiles that Macs leave littered around the place, orThumbs.dbthat Windows generates) and a generic list of IDE trash like.nb_projector whatever.Some OS and applications are really quite bad citizens but it doesn't need to add commits to your project.