What goes into your .gitignore if you're using CocoaPods?

Question

I\'ve been doing iOS development for a couple of months now and just learned of the promising CocoaPods library for dependency management.

I tried it out on a person

Answer 1

.gitignore file

No answer actually offers a .gitignore, so here are two flavors.

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Checking in the Pods directory (Benefits)

Xcode/iOS friendly git ignore, skipping Mac OS system files, Xcode, builds, other repositories and backups.

.gitignore:

# Mac OS X Finder
.DS_Store

# Private Keys
*.pem

# Xcode legacy
*.mode1
*.mode1v3
*.mode2v3
*.perspective
*.perspectivev3
*.pbxuser

# Xcode
xcuserdata/
project.xcworkspace/
DerivedData/

# build products
build/
*.[oa]

# repositories
.hg
.svn
CVS

# automatic backup files
*~.nib
*.swp
*~
*(Autosaved).rtfd/
Backup[ ]of[ ]*.pages/
Backup[ ]of[ ]*.key/
Backup[ ]of[ ]*.numbers/

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Ignoring the Pods directory (Benefits)

.gitignore: (append to previous list)

# Cocoapods
Pods/

Whether or not you check in the Pods directory, the Podfile and Podfile.lock should always be kept under version control.

If Pods are not checked-in, your Podfile should probably request explicit version numbers for each Cocoapod. Cocoapods.org discussion here.