diff --git a/ChefCookbook.gitignore b/ChefCookbook.gitignore
index 351201e0..5ee7b7a9 100644
--- a/ChefCookbook.gitignore
+++ b/ChefCookbook.gitignore
@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
 .vagrant
-Berksfile.lock
-*~
-*#
-.#*
-\#*#
-.*.sw[a-z]
-*.un~
 /cookbooks
 
 # Bundler
-Gemfile.lock
 bin/*
 .bundle/*
 
diff --git a/Dart.gitignore b/Dart.gitignore
index 2914c1be..74a3439f 100644
--- a/Dart.gitignore
+++ b/Dart.gitignore
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-// Don’t commit the following files and directories created by pub and dart2js
+# Don’t commit the following directories created by pub.
+build/
 packages/
+
+# Or the files created by dart2js.
+*.dart.js
+*.dart.precompiled.js
 *.js_
 *.js.deps
 *.js.map
 
-// Include when developing application packages
+# Include when developing application packages.
 pubspec.lock
-
-// Avoid committing generated JavaScript files
-*.dart.js
diff --git a/Global/EiffelStudio.gitignore b/Global/EiffelStudio.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a7ba35f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Global/EiffelStudio.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# The compilation directoy
+EIFGENs
diff --git a/Global/JetBrains.gitignore b/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
index 47e551f5..b530788b 100644
--- a/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
+++ b/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode
+# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm
 
 ## Directory-based project format
 .idea/
diff --git a/Global/Linux.gitignore b/Global/Linux.gitignore
index b25c15b8..9911632b 100644
--- a/Global/Linux.gitignore
+++ b/Global/Linux.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 *~
+
+# KDE directory preferences
+.directory
diff --git a/Global/SASS.gitignore b/Global/SASS.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index c1df001e..00000000
--- a/Global/SASS.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-### Sass Ignores - "Sassy CSS" http://sass-lang.com/
-*.sass-cache
diff --git a/Global/SlickEdit.gitignore b/Global/SlickEdit.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9e2fdda8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Global/SlickEdit.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# SlickEdit workspace and project files are ignored by default because
+# typically they are considered to be developer-specific and not part of a
+# project.
+*.vpw
+*.vpj
+
+# SlickEdit workspace history and tag files always contain user-specific
+# data so they should not be stored in a repository.
+*.vpwhistu
+*.vpwhist
+*.vtg
+
diff --git a/Global/Xcode.gitignore b/Global/Xcode.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..086d143d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Global/Xcode.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+build/
+*.pbxuser
+!default.pbxuser
+*.mode1v3
+!default.mode1v3
+*.mode2v3
+!default.mode2v3
+*.perspectivev3
+!default.perspectivev3
+xcuserdata
+*.xccheckout
+profile
+*.moved-aside
+DerivedData
+*.hmap
+*.ipa
+
diff --git a/Global/webMethods.gitignore b/Global/webMethods.gitignore
index 6c9abb26..b383c25c 100644
--- a/Global/webMethods.gitignore
+++ b/Global/webMethods.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-**/IntegrationServer/lib/
 **/IntegrationServer/datastore/
 **/IntegrationServer/db/
 **/IntegrationServer/DocumentStore/
diff --git a/Haskell.gitignore b/Haskell.gitignore
index cc143076..01e585ae 100644
--- a/Haskell.gitignore
+++ b/Haskell.gitignore
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ cabal-dev
 *.hi
 *.chi
 *.chs.h
-.virthualenv
+.virtualenv
 .hsenv
 .cabal-sandbox/
 cabal.sandbox.config
diff --git a/Idris.gitignore b/Idris.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c28bc7cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Idris.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.ibc
+*.o
diff --git a/Leiningen.gitignore b/Leiningen.gitignore
index b8d32453..0ef5d3f4 100644
--- a/Leiningen.gitignore
+++ b/Leiningen.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 pom.xml
+pom.xml.asc
 *jar
 /lib/
 /classes/
 /target/
+/checkouts/
 .lein-deps-sum
 .lein-repl-history
 .lein-plugins/
+.lein-failures
diff --git a/Magento.gitignore b/Magento.gitignore
index 45230169..55182e34 100644
--- a/Magento.gitignore
+++ b/Magento.gitignore
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ app/etc/modules/Mage_Widget.xml
 app/etc/modules/Mage_XmlConnect.xml
 app/etc/modules/Phoenix_Moneybookers.xml
 app/etc/modules/Cm_RedisSession.xml
+app/etc/applied.patches.list
 app/etc/config.xml
 app/etc/enterprise.xml
 app/etc/local.xml.additional
diff --git a/Node.gitignore b/Node.gitignore
index cfbee8d8..da23d0d4 100644
--- a/Node.gitignore
+++ b/Node.gitignore
@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
-lib-cov
-lcov.info
-*.seed
-*.log
-*.csv
-*.dat
-*.out
-*.pid
-*.gz
-
-pids
+# Logs
 logs
-results
-build
+*.log
+
+# Runtime data
+pids
+*.pid
+*.seed
+
+# Directory for instrumented libs generated by jscoverage/JSCover
+lib-cov
+
+# Coverage directory used by tools like istanbul
+coverage
+
+# Grunt intermediate storage (http://gruntjs.com/creating-plugins#storing-task-files)
 .grunt
 
+# Compiled binary addons (http://nodejs.org/api/addons.html)
+build/Release
+
+# Dependency directory
+# Deployed apps should consider commenting this line out:
+# see https://npmjs.org/doc/faq.html#Should-I-check-my-node_modules-folder-into-git
 node_modules
diff --git a/Objective-C.gitignore b/Objective-C.gitignore
index d0ce7de7..d522f941 100644
--- a/Objective-C.gitignore
+++ b/Objective-C.gitignore
@@ -1,23 +1,8 @@
-# OS X
-.DS_Store
-
-# Xcode
-build/
-*.pbxuser
-!default.pbxuser
-*.mode1v3
-!default.mode1v3
-*.mode2v3
-!default.mode2v3
-*.perspectivev3
-!default.perspectivev3
-xcuserdata
-*.xccheckout
-profile
-*.moved-aside
-DerivedData
-*.hmap
-*.ipa
-
 # CocoaPods
-Pods
+#
+# We recommend against adding the Pods directory to your .gitignore. However
+# you should judge for yourself, the pros and cons are mentioned at:
+# http://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html#should-i-ignore-the-pods-directory-in-source-control?
+#
+# Pods/
+
diff --git a/OpenCart.gitignore b/OpenCart.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f3179125
--- /dev/null
+++ b/OpenCart.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+.htaccess
+config.php
+download/
+image/data/
+image/cache/
+system/cache/
+system/logs/
diff --git a/Packer.gitignore b/Packer.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1b7a03ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Packer.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Cache objects
+packer_cache/
+
+# For built boxes
+*.box
diff --git a/Phalcon.gitignore b/Phalcon.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6ffe3aa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Phalcon.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/cache/
+/config/development/
diff --git a/PlayFramework.gitignore b/PlayFramework.gitignore
index 3bf02289..4735f055 100644
--- a/PlayFramework.gitignore
+++ b/PlayFramework.gitignore
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 # Ignore Play! working directory #
-bin
-db
-eclipse
-lib
-log
-logs
-modules
-precompiled
-project/project
-project/target
-target
-tmp
+bin/
+/db
+.eclipse
+/lib/
+/logs/
+/modules
+/project/project
+/project/target
+/target
+tmp/
 test-result
 server.pid
 *.iml
 *.eml
-dist
+/dist/
 .cache
diff --git a/Python.gitignore b/Python.gitignore
index 76f2a469..51cbe852 100644
--- a/Python.gitignore
+++ b/Python.gitignore
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ pip-log.txt
 pip-delete-this-directory.txt
 
 # Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
 .tox/
 .coverage
 .cache
diff --git a/Qt.gitignore b/Qt.gitignore
index 29d98c9e..623e5fea 100644
--- a/Qt.gitignore
+++ b/Qt.gitignore
@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@
 
 # Qt-es
 
+/.qmake.cache
+/.qmake.stash
 *.pro.user
 *.pro.user.*
+*.moc
 moc_*.cpp
 qrc_*.cpp
 ui_*.h
diff --git a/R.gitignore b/R.gitignore
index a0fd3b34..9a1509d5 100644
--- a/R.gitignore
+++ b/R.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@
 
 # Example code in package build process
 *-Ex.R
+
+# R data files from past sessions
+.Rdata
diff --git a/Rails.gitignore b/Rails.gitignore
index 56454403..1a2c94dc 100644
--- a/Rails.gitignore
+++ b/Rails.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 *.rbc
-*.sassc
-.sass-cache
 capybara-*.html
 .rspec
 /log
diff --git a/Ruby.gitignore b/Ruby.gitignore
index 99e72c12..f2c13607 100644
--- a/Ruby.gitignore
+++ b/Ruby.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 /test/version_tmp/
 /tmp/
 
+## Specific to RubyMotion:
+.dat*
+.repl_history
+build/
+
 ## Documentation cache and generated files:
 /.yardoc/
 /_yardoc/
diff --git a/RubyMotion.gitignore b/RubyMotion.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e395179..00000000
--- a/RubyMotion.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-.dat*
-.repl_history
-build/
-tags
-
-# Editor files
-.DS_Store
-nbproject
-.redcar
-*.swp
-*.swo
-~
-.eprj
-vendor/Pods
-*.nib
-
-# YARD artifacts
-.yardoc
-_yardoc
-doc/
diff --git a/Compass.gitignore b/Sass.gitignore
similarity index 100%
rename from Compass.gitignore
rename to Sass.gitignore
diff --git a/TeX.gitignore b/TeX.gitignore
index f19b71f3..24052950 100644
--- a/TeX.gitignore
+++ b/TeX.gitignore
@@ -72,8 +72,20 @@
 # nomencl
 *.nlo
 
+# sagetex
+*.sagetex.sage
+*.sagetex.py
+*.sagetex.scmd
+
+# sympy
+*.sout
+*.sympy
+sympy-plots-for-*.tex/
+
 # todonotes
 *.tdo
 
 # xindy
 *.xdy
+
+
diff --git a/VisualStudio.gitignore b/VisualStudio.gitignore
index 2518b002..748683d0 100644
--- a/VisualStudio.gitignore
+++ b/VisualStudio.gitignore
@@ -123,9 +123,8 @@ publish/
 *.azurePubxml
 
 # NuGet Packages Directory
-## TODO: If you have NuGet Package Restore enabled, uncomment the next line
-#packages/*
-## TODO: If the tool you use requires repositories.config, also uncomment the next line
+packages/
+## TODO: If the tool you use requires repositories.config uncomment the next line
 #!packages/repositories.config
 
 # Enable "build/" folder in the NuGet Packages folder since NuGet packages use it for MSBuild targets
@@ -173,17 +172,3 @@ UpgradeLog*.htm
 
 # Microsoft Fakes
 FakesAssemblies/
-
-# =========================
-# Windows detritus
-# =========================
-
-# Windows image file caches
-Thumbs.db
-ehthumbs.db
-
-# Folder config file
-Desktop.ini
-
-# Recycle Bin used on file shares
-$RECYCLE.BIN/