Why Android Studio (3.4) created .gitignore doesn't exclude all `/.idea`?

Question

Whenever a new Android Studio project is created (I'm using Android Studio 3.4), the .gitignore content is as below.

*.iml
.gradle
/local.properties
/.idea/caches
/.idea/libraries
/.idea/modules.xml
/.idea/workspace.xml
/.idea/navEditor.xml
/.idea/assetWizardSettings.xml
.DS_Store
/build
/captures
.externalNativeBuild

Why isn't entire /.idea to be ignore but only the selective few? Are the remaining of any special use?

Answer 1

There are some that you generally want to check into version control (anything project-specific but not user-specific). See What to gitignore from the .idea folder? for more information. If you don't want to version control them, you can exclude the whole directory.