Your personal .gitignore should contain files/directories that are produced by your OS, IDE and personal tools.
In my opinion things like .idea, .DS_Store, Thumbs.db do not belong in a project's .gitignore but in personal ignore files.
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I agree, but the number of other developers on any random project who use badly-behaved OS or IDEs is often quite high. You could tell them to use a particular .gitignore configuration and double-check all their commits, or you could just include it all in the repo and forget about it.
Your personal .gitignore should contain files/directories that are produced by your OS, IDE and personal tools.
In my opinion things like
.idea,.DS_Store,Thumbs.dbdo not belong in a project's .gitignore but in personal ignore files.I agree, but the number of other developers on any random project who use badly-behaved OS or IDEs is often quite high. You could tell them to use a particular
.gitignoreconfiguration and double-check all their commits, or you could just include it all in the repo and forget about it.Definitely agree on this!