When developing Windows Store applications (former “Metro Style”), these are generally the files that I don’t want Git to include in the repository:
- Thumbs.db files that are created by Windows for caching image thumbnails;
- *.suo and *.user files that are created by Visual Studio;
- All the build artifacts that are created by Visual Studio:
- Folders bin and obj;
- The application package files for the Windows Store.
- All the files created by ReSharper in a specific folder starting with “_ReSharper“.
Thus, this is how my .gitignore file usually looks like:
#Ignore thumbnails created by Windows Thumbs.db #Ignore files created by Visual Studio *.user *.suo *.sln.docstates [Oo]bj/ [Bb]in/ [Bb]ld/ [Aa]pp[Pp]ackages/ #Ignore files created by ReSharper _ReSharper*/
I have included some more that can be useful if you use some visual studio tools.
#Ignore thumbnails created by Windows
Thumbs.db
#Ignore files created by Visual Studio
*.user
*.suo
[Oo]bj/
[Bb]in/
[Bb]ld/
[Aa]pp[Pp]ackages/
#Ignore files created by ReSharper
_ReSharper*
## Ignore Visual Studio temporary files, build results, and
## files generated by popular Visual Studio add-ons.
# User-specific files
*.suo
*.user
*.sln.docstates
# Build results
[Dd]ebug/
[Rr]elease/
x64/
*_i.c
*_p.c
*.ilk
*.meta
*.obj
*.pch
*.pdb
*.pgc
*.pgd
*.rsp
*.sbr
*.tlb
*.tli
*.tlh
*.tmp
*.log
*.vspscc
*.vssscc
.builds
# Visual C++ cache files
ipch/
*.aps
*.ncb
*.opensdf
*.sdf
# Visual Studio profiler
*.psess
*.vsp
*.vspx
# Guidance Automation Toolkit
*.gpState
# NCrunch
*.ncrunch*
.*crunch*.local.xml
# Installshield output folder
[Ee]xpress
# DocProject is a documentation generator add-in
DocProject/buildhelp/
DocProject/Help/*.HxT
DocProject/Help/*.HxC
DocProject/Help/*.hhc
DocProject/Help/*.hhk
DocProject/Help/*.hhp
DocProject/Help/Html2
DocProject/Help/html
# Click-Once directory
publish
# Publish Web Output
*.Publish.xml
# Others
sql
TestResults
[Tt]est[Rr]esult*
*.Cache
ClientBin
[Ss]tyle[Cc]op.*
~$*
*.dbmdl