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Back on earth, a few lines in an ignore file would not make anyone blink. I guess you're a purist and everything about your software shines! Perfection.

• dahart 4y ago
  > Back on earth, a few lines in an ignore file would not make anyone blink. I guess you're a purist and everything about your software shines! Perfection. I didn’t downvote you, and I don’t understand your sarcasm toward me when I’m trying to explain the practical answer to the question you asked. This isn’t just a few lines on a large project, and it’s not even about the extra lines at all. The issue is that personal preferences don’t belong in a shared file, and their presence can cause real and actual problems in a large project, problems I’ve witnessed and experienced first hand. One single bad line in .gitignore can cause trouble for everyone on the team when they need to checkout different branches. If you have 50 or 100 people adding their own ignores, they can and do easily conflict with each other. The shared .gitignore just isn’t the spot to list your personal folders, which is why git designed other places for you to put those.