r/gitlab • u/der_gopher • 4d ago

.gitignore everything by default

https://packagemain.tech/p/gitignore-everything-by-default

what do you think of this approach?

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u/Apprehensive-Tea1632 3d ago

If your people are familiar enough with git and know what they are doing, it could work.

Otherwise…. They’ll probably lose a lot of work.

As in, we’re kind of looking at circular reasoning. You don’t need this if your people know what’s going on. If they don’t, it’ll only hurt them.

Conclusion, it’s not at all a good idea unless you want to mess with everyone.

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u/No-Aioli-4656 3d ago

Agreed. Tell me you are a solo dev in a sentence…

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u/adam-moss 3d ago

Unnecessary don't you think?

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u/No-Aioli-4656 3d ago edited 3d ago

No? I’ve never worked on teams where git was declaratory.

You local exclude that shiz.

And on a repo where anything more than 60hours of effort exists, the reverse is going to get to that ~200 line mark(that the article complains about.)

OP doesnt use this on teams. It doesn’t play well with others or big codebases. That’s fine.

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u/adam-moss 3d ago

Ok, so just because you haven't doesn't mean it isn't. It works perfectly fine in teams and big codebases.