Question

When I do git status now, I get this as part of the results

#   both modified:      BusinessPlan.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

This is kind of an important file because Apple’s xCode uses it to open the whole project. I am not even sure it should be in git. Should it?

How can I resolve this? Should this file not be committed? I think I might have gotten changes from other developers. How can I clean it up and what is the way to work with this kind of a file long-term?

Thanks!

Answer 1

In order to get Git and Xcode to play together nicely, you need to tell Git to ignore a handful of the extraneous files Xcode uses.

Create a file called .gitignore in the root folder of your project, and include this text:

# files created by Xcode 3 or older
*.pbxuser
*.mode1
*.mode1v3
*.mode2v3
*.perspectivev3
*.xcclassmodel/
# files created by Xcode 4
xcuserdata/
# build products
*.build/
build/
DerivedData/
# Misc
.svn
.DS_Store

This will instruct Git to ignore all of the files that will cause problems.

Taken from Beanstalk page on Setting up Git with XCode 4.