Add hidden files to .gitignore

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Add hidden files to .gitignore

Closed this issue 5 years ago · 7 comments

SSaishruthi commented 5 years ago

Can we either add .* to ignore all hidden files or add just .DS_store to ignore DS_Store files?

SSaishruthi commented 5 years ago

Ref: #29

Answer 1 · 2019-07-12T17:36:27.000Z

@djalova @bdwyer2
Any suggestion on this?

Answer 2 · 2019-07-12T17:40:56.000Z

We don't want to add .* because that would ignore .dockerignore but we should add .DS_store and other files used by IDEs.

Answer 3 · 2019-07-12T17:45:48.000Z

Is .dockerignore the only file that we need to force add if we include .*?

Answer 4 · 2019-07-12T17:49:45.000Z

.gitignore, .travis.yml

Answer 5 · 2019-07-12T17:53:17.000Z

I thought of suggesting explicit include using ! prefix. If there are many files, I am not sure if it makes sense.

Answer 6 · 2019-07-12T21:31:05.000Z

we have added .DS_store to gitignore on other max repos previously so we should just add it here. wildcard ignores are generally not good practice unless in a subdirectory (eg tests)