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Creating a .gitignore file for .NET development

Why a .gitignore file?

By default Git will monitor all the files inside your folders.  So this means that even bin and obj folders and (if you are using Resharper, your _ReSharper files) are listed to be added to your repository. I don’t think you want to include these files inside your source control system(at least I don’t).

Creating the .gitignore file in Windows

I’m not a commandline guru, so I tried creating this file the easy way. I created a new text file inside my repository folder and tried to rename it to .gitignore.  Unfortunately no success:

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It seems that Windows doesn’t understand dot files (and Git uses this a lot; .bashrc, .gitignore, etc…). Windows expects your files to have a name.extension convention.

So back to the Gitbash console…  but no .gitignore. Type “touch .gitignore”. This will create the .gitignore file with no content.

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Adding the .gitignore content to support .NET development

So now we have our .gitignore file, but it is still empty.  What information should I add? Depending on the kind of development you’re doing(.NET, Java, Ruby), you probably want to add different data. Don’t loose time searching for this data yourself, instead go to https://github.com/github/gitignore and pick the content that suites your needs:

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I’m going for the CSharp.gitignore file. Copy the content to your clipboard and open the .gitignore file in your favorite text editor (i.e., notepad, wordpad, notepad++, etc).  Paste the CSharp.gitignore content and you are good to go!

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