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Asked: 2026-05-21T11:48:26+00:00

I guess its actually two questions : (1) My IDE generates a particular directory

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I guess its actually two questions:

(1) My IDE generates a particular directory structure (which I don’t want to alter) with files of different types which are mainly of two kind … i.e. source(text) vs. binary. I want to work with an online git repository. Whats the best git practice to push/pull only the first kind of files (source/text type) and completely ignore the human non-readable kinds of files like binaries ?

(2) Isn’t it better and simpler to have all the project file types generated by my IDE (text + binary) under source control when working with remote repositories as backups etc?

Note: I am using msysgit/Gitbash command line git on windows 7 with visualC#/.net and Monodevelop/mono as IDEs

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  1. Editorial Team

    (1) You can tell git to simply ignore the binary files by placing expressions in a .gitignore file as described in the git docs.

    (2) Typically, it’s better to not check in files that are generated by your IDE or build process, since it’s easy to regenerate them and it’s a maintenance headache when your IDE changes the files between check-ins.

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