Made the gitignore file consistent with Julia template, and added c…

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.gitignore

@@ -1,6 +1,30 @@
-*.jl.*.cov
+# Gitignore template borrowed from:
+# https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Julia.gitignore
+
+# Files generated by invoking Julia with --code-coverage
 *.jl.cov
+*.jl.*.cov
+
+# Files generated by invoking Julia with --track-allocation
 *.jl.mem
-/Manifest.toml
-/docs/Manifest.toml
-/docs/build/
+
+# System-specific files and directories generated by the BinaryProvider and BinDeps packages
+# They contain absolute paths specific to the host computer, and so should not be committed
+deps/deps.jl
+deps/build.log
+deps/downloads/
+deps/usr/
+deps/src/
+
+# Build artifacts for creating documentation generated by the Documenter package
+docs/build/
+docs/site/
+
+# File generated by Pkg, the package manager, based on a corresponding Project.toml
+# It records a fixed state of all packages used by the project. As such, it should not be
+# committed for packages, but should be committed for applications that require a static
+# environment.
+Manifest.toml
+
+# Ignore Visual Studio code files in the user's local directory.
+*.vscode/