The template hasn't been touched since it was added to this collection.
There are some problems with it - mainly that it's hard to know if these
rules are all still relevant, and the large prose block is probably more
confusing than helpful here.
When working with multifile LaTeX-documents in AUCTeX in emacs, it creates the auto-folder to keep track of styles, macros etc. in the whole document. Unnecessary of versioning purposes.
xcuserstate files are generated from within Xcode and saved in your project bundle to remember your last opened file, the open state of any group folders, open tabs, and any other user setting your project might need to remember, this is something that shouldn't be tracked in version control
Restore the Xcode rules to the Objective-C template as per the discussion
thread on 5bd4330. Although the rules correspond to an IDE and so are
global, most users of the Obj-C template expect to find the Xcode rules
in the template generated by github.com, since the IDE is so ubiquitous.
This could possibly be resolved by adding a template transclusion
mechanism in the future, but for now duplication is the way to go.
This commit adds a global ignore file for SlickEdit, a commercial editor.
SlickEdit will create the following files when the user sets up a workspace:
*.vpw Workspace file. Contains a list of project files associated with
the workspace.
*.vpj Project file. Contains the project’s settings, including the list
of source files.
*.vpwhist Workspace history file for Windows. Contains user session
information (list of open files, debugger breakpoints, etc.)
*.vpwhistu Workspace history file for UNIX/Linux/MacOSX. (Same as above.)
*.vtg Workspace tag file. Contains a database of source code symbols.
It is assumed that GitHub users will generally not want to store their
workspace and project files in a repository, so those files are ignored
globally. However, those files do not contain user-specific data so they
could be stored in a repository and shared among developers if desired for
a particular project. This can be done by adding rules like ’!*.vpw’ and
‘!*.vpj’ to the project’s .gitignore file.
The workspace history and tag files contain user-specific data, so they
should not be stored in a repository.
For more information, download the PDF user guide from:
http://www.slickedit.com/products/slickedit/product-documentation
Note: The user guide is 1400 pages long and over 13MB in size.
Searching for ‘vpwhist’ will lead to the section that discusses storing
these files in a repository.
