diff --git a/C.gitignore b/C.gitignore
index 0331bbbd..9fa3b1bf 100644
--- a/C.gitignore
+++ b/C.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Object files
 *.o
+*.ko
 
 # Libraries
 *.lib
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..918dd5e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Since this repo includes a large and diverse number of programming languages, frameworks, editors, and ecosystems, it's *very helpful* if you can provide a link to information supporting your pull request. Up-to-date, canonical documentation that mentions the files to be ignored is best.
+
+This ensures we can efficiently go through pull requests and keep quality high.
diff --git a/Global/vim.gitignore b/Global/vim.gitignore
index 51514eb2..eadcec7a 100644
--- a/Global/vim.gitignore
+++ b/Global/vim.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.*.s[a-w][a-z]
+*.s[a-w][a-z]
 *.un~
 Session.vim
 .netrwhist
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 0f05796d..f247e598 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2012 GitHub, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 2013 GitHub, Inc.
 
 Permission is hereby granted,  free of charge,  to any person obtaining a
 copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
diff --git a/Objective-C.gitignore b/Objective-C.gitignore
index 31e6fd9a..ebbef4bd 100644
--- a/Objective-C.gitignore
+++ b/Objective-C.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ profile
 DerivedData
 .idea/
 *.hmap
+
+#CocoaPods
+Pods
diff --git a/Rails.gitignore b/Rails.gitignore
index bf692e15..470ad2fc 100644
--- a/Rails.gitignore
+++ b/Rails.gitignore
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ capybara-*.html
 rerun.txt
 pickle-email-*.html
 .project
+config/initializers/secret_token.rb
diff --git a/VisualStudio.gitignore b/VisualStudio.gitignore
index 99456160..0881b8de 100644
--- a/VisualStudio.gitignore
+++ b/VisualStudio.gitignore
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ build/
 [Bb]in/
 [Oo]bj/
 
+# Enable "build/" folder in the NuGet Packages folder since NuGet packages use it for MSBuild targets
+!packages/*/build/
+
 # MSTest test Results
 [Tt]est[Rr]esult*/
 [Bb]uild[Ll]og.*