gitignore VS renaming

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

Uh, no. This is false. It’s just part of a broader trend to stop using ‘master’ due to some people finding that term offensive.

https://github.com/github/renaming

Not only did GH only make the change for reasons other than what you said, it's also just a weird hill to die on? Words evolve over time, and as things take on different connotations, people generally gravitate towards more tasteful alternatives.

I mean github changed "master" to "main" because social warriors were crying wolf on the use of "master"... people are going to find ways to get offended, once everything has been turned to "neutral" another side of the same group will fight for "inclusion" by turning all of it on its head.

The master-main thing is actually real lmao. Not Stanform, but GitHub did it

Oh, they did already. The default branch is "main" now if you create the project on Github. But if you're a white colonizer like me, you create your project using git directly and it uses master by default.

😱 the M-word

Github renamed the master branch to main. The University of Pennsylvania renamed faculty masters to faculty directors. There's a view to rename residential masters at Yale. Likewise, the master's degree should be renamed to something that's more racially sensitive.