bfg-repo-cleaner VS gitignore

So, this is a PSA that you can't simply delete the file and commit that. You must either use a tool like BFG Repo Cleaner which can scrub files out of your commit history or you could simply delete your repository and recreate it (easier, but you lose your commit history).

It shouldn't take a lot of time to modify. There is even a tool just for this scenario https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

You need to git out the BFG: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

This method requires changes to be committed as usual in the regular project repository, and then committed again in the -docs repository. This is inelegant, but it provides clear distinction between private and public content. You cannot publish your regular repository without using git-filter-branch or some Git history rewriting software like BFG Repo-Cleaner. This would rewrite every commit in the history of the repo, removing all changes to the paths you don't wish to publish. This would change all the commit hashes and possibly other metadata – in short, it wouldn't be the same repository.

GFG Repo-Cleaner

You could use a repo filtering tool (e.g. BFG Repo-Cleaner) to clean up unintended information leak from your Git repository -- which retains the history timeline, but I believe it would rehash all the commits and render everything unsigned, which is probably not the desired outcome.

In conclusion, the Gitignore repository stands as a testament to the power of collective knowledge and collaboration in software development. By providing a centralized repository of .gitignore templates, it empowers developers to streamline their workflow, maintain cleaner repositories, and focus on what they do best – writing exceptional code. As the software development landscape continues to evolve, the significance of .gitignore templates as indispensable tools for developers is set to endure.

The challenge here was actually from my #48in28 Exercism participation, where I am pretty familiar the standard layout for some repositories since I am familiar with tooling and language, working with new languages does not come with the same familiarity, so I found it made sense to use canonical definitions, hence the use of github/gitignore.

Add .env to your .gitignore file to prevent it from being committed. Here's an example file with it already added. You may also use dotenv for advanced configuration and it will automatically load environment variables from a .env file into process.env.

Here you can find ready-made .gitignore templates for various technologies and languages such as Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, and many others: https://github.com/github/gitignore/tree/main.

You could also use this git ignore template. Create you .gitignore and add the contents from that file in.

I've only used free Unity with GitHub or GitLab, professionally and reaching back into internships. One recommendation would be to use a slightly longer .gitignore than the default, like this one.

Virtual Environments are a feature that has been part of python itself since version 3.3. It allows you to isolate both a python version and any packages you install with it. Every python project I develop with uses a virtual environment for such isolation purposes. Now I generally like to create these virtual environments inside the target project's directory so I know exactly what it's tied to. If you use GitHub's python gitignore file naming the virtual environment folder as venv or .venv will ensure it doesn't get committed (which you don't want). So I'll make a new project folder and create a virtual environment inside of it:

Especially considering the GitHub .gitignore template for Node only ignores .env.local, not .local.env: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Node.gitignore...

# Get latest from https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore