A piece of best practice all around the world.

Just mix up your .gitignore composed of the following components:

• OS
• IDE
• Software
• Misc

If you're working in a team, your collaborator should do the same respective their techniques & tools and merge it with the project's gitignore.

Git Ignore Files are planned to become divided into different degrees of Versioning, depending on which goal you plan to achieve:

• Maximum Versioning (some kinda Backup Strategy) — grab a Git Ignore File marked as "Min"
• Minimal Versioning (just for tracking your manipulations) - grab the "Full" ones
• Customized Versioning - just mix a bit!

If you're wondering why we've suffixed those Files by "Min|Full" contrariwise to their effect regarding Versioning: The Suffix describes the degree of File Exclusion, e.g. "Full" means most files (Core, etc.) are not being versioned in order to keep the Repo clean and lean.

If you have any ideas, features or bug requests, don't hesitate to report them in the Issue Tracker.

Feel free to fork and pull.