Ignore IDE and Editor specific files

[widoz]

Someone might use Phpstorm or customize the VSCode installation, those files shouldn't be committed.

What?

Exclude IDE & Editor specific files and directories

Why?

For local development it would require less maintainance

How?

Adding some lines to .gitignore

Testing Instructions

Not relevant

Testing Instructions for Keyboard

Not relevant

Screenshots or screencast

Not relevant

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[Mamaduka]

Thanks for contributing, @widoz!

The editor-specific files should be ignored locally via global .gitignore rather than maintain the list in the project.

Past examples: #2254 (comment) and #27360 (comment)

[widoz]

The editor-specific files should be ignored locally via global .gitignore rather than maintain the list in the project.

@Mamaduka thanks for the reply. The problem is that, you might have multiple projects for which you want to have those files under versions. Does not the global force that for all local projects?

[Mamaduka]

I believe you can use the ! prefix and negate patterns from global .gitignore.

Example

!.idea
!.vscode/settings.json

[widoz]

I believe you can use the ! prefix and negate patterns from global .gitignore.

@Mamaduka but at that point for only one single project I'm forced to change the .gitignore of a bunch of other projects. What's the main point to not have those files ignored in this project if them are not necessary?

[Mamaduka]

The project has 100+ contributors; if everyone starts adding their environment-specific files to .gitignore, we would have an extensive list to maintain. It's recommended to handle those via personal global git ignore files.

General solutions like these might not work for some, but they make maintaining the project easier.

I'll have to close this PR as wontfix.