Project-type .gitignore vs. global .gitignore

[AlphaGit]

Right now we are building a global .gitignore file that everyone can add to their projects.

However, it is known that most projects have different needs depending on their technology type, and even the project itself.

[AlphaGit]

My proposal to that problem is to create technology-specific .gitignore files, or better yet, use the ones already out in GitHub: https://github.com/github/gitignore

[andresmoschini]

I am not sure about to use GitHub selections, CSharp one is not so good, VisualStudio one is better. Maybe we can send pull request to GitHub in order to enhance it and to use the combo in new repository dialog:

Anyway, in my opinion, nothing in this documentation site should be used as an imposition. The .gitignore file is a tool, is something that each team could edit as they prefer.

This example file is only a tool that I used to create a guide to start a new repository easily, but we can edit Repo Boilerplate page in order to recommend to use GitHub recomendations, or both. In any case, of course, the final decision is in the team.