Add build output folder (target) to .gitignore

[sharwell]

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[ndw]

Who started putting things in /target/?

[sharwell]

When Maven builds the project, it places the output in that folder. After I run a simple mvn install, this folder contains nearly 1500 files.

Also note that the /target/ syntax means the following:

• The leading / means to only match the path if it starts at the root directory where the repository is checked out.
• The trailing / means to only ignore the directory named target.

In other words, this only ignores a folder named target (exact case-sensitive match) placed in the same location as pom.xml. It will not ignore any file or folder named target anywhere else in the repository.

[ndw]

Ok. I understand the git syntax, I guess I just hadn't noticed that Maven was creating/using /target/.

[ndw]

Oh. Right. I had a .gitignore with a bunch of stuff in it. I'd avoided putting it in the repo because some of what I'm ignoring is local.