Question

I wan to place a VB.NET project under Git control in Windows (was previously under Visual Source Safe – long sad story of repository corruption, etc.). How should I set up the ignore file? The exclusions I’m thinking of using are:

• *.exe
• *.pdb
• *.manifest
• *.xml
• *.log (is Git case sensitive on Windows? Should I exclude *.l og as well?)
• *.scc (I gather these were left over from Visual Source Safe – maybe I should delete them?)

Is this a sensible list? Should I be excluding directories?

Answer 1

Here’s what I have for my C# projects:

ProjectName/bin ProjectName/obj *.user *.suo _ReSharper.* *.sln.cache 

With the bin/obj directories gone, you don’t need to exclude all EXEs, XML files etc – which is handy, as it means you still get to put in the ones you want 🙂 (You might have sample XML files etc.)