Files to ignore when using Visual Studio with Git

Question

I\'ve installed Git to do some development using Visual Studio 2008. Most of the work will be new development but we do have some old projects from prior to VS2005 that I wa

Answer 1

You should ignore:

• the bin directory
• the obj directory
• *.suo
• *.user

Answer 2

In GitExtensions the default .gitignore is this. It can be a bit shorted by removing most individual file extensions and only exclude the directories they are in.

*.obj
*.exe
*.exp
*.pdb
*.dll
*.user
*.aps
*.pch
*.vspscc
*_i.c
*_p.c
*.ncb
*.suo
*.tlb
*.tlh
*.bak
*.cache
*.ilk
*.log
*.zip
[Dd]ebug*/
*.lib
*.sbr
Thumbs.db
[Ll]ib/
[Rr]elease*/
[Tt]est[Rr]esults/
_UpgradeReport_Files/
_ReSharper.*/

Answer 3

Just found this - https://github.com/github/gitignore

Specifically this - https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore