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Git ignore file for VB.NET projects

I wan to place a VB.NET project under Git control in Windows (was previously under Visual Source Safe - long sad story of repository corruption, etc.). How should I set up the ignore file? The exclusions I'm thinking of using are:

  • *.exe
  • *.pdb
  • *.manifest
  • *.xml
  • *.log (is Git case sensitive on Windows? Should I exclude *.l og as well?)
  • *.scc (I gather these were left over from Visual Source Safe - maybe I should delete them?)

Is this a sensible list? Should I be excluding directories?

Solution

  • Here's what I have for my C# projects:

    ProjectName/bin
ProjectName/obj
*.user
*.suo
_ReSharper.*
*.sln.cache

    With the bin/obj directories gone, you don't need to exclude all EXEs, XML files etc - which is handy, as it means you still get to put in the ones you want :) (You might have sample XML files etc.)