Configure .gitignore for Drupal projects

[mradcliffe]

Follow-up from #45,

When working with Drupal, after the workspace is initialized, there are many untracked files in repos/drupal.

I needed to do the following steps:

1. Copy repos/drupal/example.gitignore to repos/drupal/.gitignore.
2. Concatenate vendor and .gitignore as separate lines to repos/drupal/.gitignore.

[rfay]

Hey there -

• Do you think it's OK to create the .gitignore even though it doesn't gitignore itself? It then shows up as untracked
• Can you be explicit about 2 - give exact example? and diff?

[mradcliffe]

Do you think it's OK to create the .gitignore even though it doesn't gitignore itself? It then shows up as untracked

I think that might cause some people to commit the .gitignore to the core repo. We should try to reduce as many gotchas for a first-time contributor as possible.

Can you be explicit about 2 - give exact example? and diff?

Just now, I did the following, though I had to remove drush because main and symfony 8 now conflicts (filing a separate issue soon).

1. Visited https://start.coder.ddev.com/drupal-issue
2. Used https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3572039
3. Set to Standard install profile and Drupal 12 (main), but Drupal 11 would work.
4. Launched
5. Waited until composer was run.
   • This should happen automatically, but with main branch and symfony 8, this is now failing due to drush/drush and drupal/core-recommended conflicts so some manual intervention:
   • Removed drush/drush from composer.json
   • Ran ddev composer install
   • Installed drupal via the UI
6. Open VS Code Web

Result:

[rfay]

That appears to be all a result of sites/default/files not being gitignored, which I'm sure is resolved by copying the example.gitignore, but simpletest and vendor are the real issues here, right?

Would it be better to just add to ~/.gitignore_global

/vendor
/simpletest
/sites/default/files

[rfay]

If that general approach works, a PR is welcome.

https://github.com/ddev/coder-ddev/blob/main/image/scripts/.gitignore_global

[rfay]

I'm mostly not available until being on the train to Chicago on Saturday, and will have a lot to catch up on anyway, so any progress you can make on this manually is welcome. A good .gitignore_global (homedir) and a good approach to install that doesn't require drush (other issue) will be very welcome.

[mradcliffe]

Ah, the general approach makes sense to me. Thank you for pointing that out.

I'll try to do that as well.