We have several web projects within our organisation – using different frameworks and with many different developers.
Each developer might use a different ide and use different operating system etc and my question is that should the project gitignore include ide and os specific ignores?
such as netbeans, phpstorm, ds etc
Or should we rely on individual developers ignoring the files relevant to them
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You don’t want to check in the IDE created files, as you don’t want Thumbs.db or .DS_Store. By making every developer create their own version, you are adding more work and the risk of laziness at absolutely no gain. Having a few extra lines doesn’t hurt, and helps you make sure you are not creating files that could interfere with other developers’ workflow.
Most of the open source projects I have explored the source do indeed follow this, explicitly gitignoring all these files. See, for example, Numpy.