{"id":18108,"date":"2022-10-29T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-do-i-know-what-files-should-be-gitignored\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:13:00","slug":"solved-how-do-i-know-what-files-should-be-gitignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-do-i-know-what-files-should-be-gitignored\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How do I know what files should be gitignored?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-27502002\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"27502002\" data-parentid=\"27501890\" data-score=\"5\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Put the files you do not want in your git repository in the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/git-scm.com\/docs\/gitignore\">.gitignore<\/a> file.<\/p>\n<p>These are typically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy to generate files<\/li>\n<li>Intermediate (build) files<\/li>\n<li>Large binaries (e.g. documentation), that are also available elsewhere (on your companies servers)<\/li>\n<li>Files containing sensitive information (like passwords)<\/li>\n<li>Files of external dependencies (especially when using a dependency manager to retrieve their exact version)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">0<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How do I know what files should be gitignored? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Put the files you do not want in your git repository in the .gitignore file. 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