The largest collection of useful .gitignore templates

About

GitHub currently hosts the canonical repository of .gitignore templates at https://github.com/github/gitignore, but occasionally is hesitant to merge changes without proper documentation based on their contributing guidelines. This repository serves as an alternate source for contributing .gitignore templates.

This project is also the canonical repository where the https://www.gitignore.io template list comes from.

Files

There are four file file types that gitignore.io recoginzes

1. Templates

   A .gitignore file is the foundation of all templates. Each .gitignore file contains gitignore information related to the title of the file. For example, Go.gitignore contains a gitignore template that is used when creating a project usingthe Go programming language.

   

2. Patch

   A .patch is a file to extend the functionality of a template. The source for some of the template files on dvcs/gitignore come from github/gitignore. GitHub maintains strict contributing guidlines and the .patch file allows anyone to extend any of the templates to add extra template rules

   

3. Stack

   A .stack is a file that allows for the creation of code stacks (LAMP, MEAN, React Native). In todays development environment a .gitignore file is usually comprised of multiple technologes. A stack creates an elegant way to keep the stack up to date with child dependencies.

   

4. Order

   The order file simply ensure that if certain templates are requested, the order in which the templates are loaded is maintinted.