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Include an appropriately configured .gitignore file in the generated project

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One of the first things I do after generating a project is to create an appropriately configured .gitignore file for it. What goes in the file is build system specific. For Gradle projects, I’d like .gradle, build, and bin (thanks, Eclipse) to be ignored by default. For Maven projects, I’d like target to be ignored by default.

I realise that this is VCS specific, so perhaps it shouldn’t be switched on by default, although I suspect that the vast majority of people will be using Git these days.

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dsyercommented, Nov 18, 2015

I’d be happy to ignore the IDE I wasn’t using. All Spring projects have eclipse and intellij ignores already.

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spencergibbcommented, Oct 14, 2015

Could use https://www.gitignore.io

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