Git .Net files to ignore

Question

What are your best practices for Git with .Net? What files do you ignore and do not add to your project type?

Answer 1

An initial list excludes all temporary build files,

*.dep *.aps *.vbw *.suo *.obj *.ncb *.plg *.bsc *.ilk 
*.exp *.sbr *.opt *.pdb *.idb *.pch *.res *.user

Also the build directories

 *\obj
 *\bin
 *\Debug
 *\Release

if you use Rehsarper, exclude its directories too

 ./Resharp*

Plus some special files

 Thumbs.db

Some people also exclude binary files

 *.exe
 *.dll

It might be worthwhile considering what you want to store in your SCM, rather than a long and possibly never-complete list of exclusions.

Answer 2

This is not really git-specific, but rather applies to any version control.

Ignore the bin and obj folders, and the .user and .suo files (which are user-specific). That is, of course, if you're using Visual Studio.