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I've installed magento2 via composer. I couldn't find any information about common gitignore files for magento2 and the the file structure is still strange to me.

Can someone share a common gitignore template? Thanks!

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Assuming that project was created using

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition .

take this .gitignore and put into your project root. It also makes sense to add /update and /phpserver to ignore list.

Another option:

  1. Download this Magento 2 project https://github.com/magento/magento2-community-edition (if you do it via git clone make sure to execute rm -rf .git just after that)
  2. Run composer update in the Magento root
  3. Initialize new git repository in the root of Magento
  4. Almost all core files/directories are already added to the root .gitignore, but it is better to add the following 2 as well /update and /phpserver (just add these 2 lines to .gitignore)
  5. Add all untracked files to git and commit them (should be only 3 files, all other are already added to .gitignore in the root of Magento.)
  6. Start development of your modules as usual (put them under app/code/YourCompanyName/YourModuleName), now you will have only your custom code in your git repository
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  • thanks, but when I installed magento2 via composer there was no gitignore file in the root – Claudiu Creanga Nov 20 '15 at 15:12
  • have you used composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition <installation directory name> ? – Alex Paliarush Nov 20 '15 at 15:13
  • yes: composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition . – Claudiu Creanga Nov 20 '15 at 15:14
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    Yes, should be good. Updated response. Probably this project is not intended for developers developers, which is strange. Will try to find out. – Alex Paliarush Nov 20 '15 at 15:21
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    vendor/magento/magento2-base/.gitignore does not ignore core files, unlike this one github.com/magento/magento2-community-edition/blob/master/… . I suppose it will be added automatically in scope of future releases of M2 – Alex Paliarush Dec 4 '15 at 11:36
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Your .gitignore should depend on your deployment process. If you use composer install in production then it makes sense to have the vendor folder ignored, but it is very risky:

http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/blog/2014/03/the_npm_debacle

If you don't have some other strategies for deployments I would commit the vendor folder and not run composer in production.

Also I removed grunt folder from gitignore, imo it should be tracked because you have changes to themes.js file etc.

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I normally use the following website to generate my gitignore:

https://www.gitignore.io/

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  • probably better as a comment but one of the best resources I've found from here so thank you! :) – treyBake Feb 26 '18 at 13:35
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For my magneto2 projects I had used git ignore from.

https://dev2devs.com/magento-tips-and-tricks-for-developers-and-server-admins/

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