I will try to keep this table up-to-date.
Note that in some tooling, names are case sensitive.
| Name |
Category |
Tool |
Comment |
| Debug |
Directory |
|
|
| lib |
Directory |
|
|
| *.identcache |
Extension |
Delphi |
|
| *.local |
Extension |
Delphi |
|
| *bin |
Extension |
|
|
| *obj |
Extension |
|
|
| RECYCLER |
Directory |
Windows |
|
| Bin |
Directory |
|
|
| *.user |
Extension |
Visual Studio/Delphi |
|
| *.suo |
Extension |
Visual Studio |
|
| *.dcu |
Extension |
Delphi |
|
| __history |
Directory |
Delphi |
|
| ModelSupport_* |
File |
Delphi |
|
| *.rsm |
Extension |
Delphi |
|
| thumbs.db |
File |
Windows |
stored in each directory that contains thumbnails on Windows systems |
| thumbcache_256.db |
File |
Windows |
stored in each directory that contains thumbnails on Windows systems |
| *.bak |
Extension |
|
|
| *.~* |
Extension pattern |
Delphi |
|
| __recovery |
Directory |
Delphi |
|
| *.tvsconfig |
Extension |
Delphi |
|
| *.o |
Extension |
|
|
| *.lo |
Extension |
|
|
| *.la |
Extension |
|
|
| *.al |
Extension |
|
|
| .libs |
|
|
|
| *.so |
Extension |
|
|
| *.so.[0-9]* |
Extension pattern |
|
|
| *.a |
Extension |
|
|
| *.pyc |
Extension |
Python |
|
| *.pyo |
Extension |
Python |
|
| *.rej |
Extension |
Mercurial |
[WayBack] Rejected patches |
| *~ |
|
|
|
| #*# |
|
|
|
| .#* |
Extension pattern |
|
|
| .*.swp |
Extension |
|
|
| .DS_Store |
File |
MacOS |
stores custom attributes of its containing folder |
| desktop.ini |
File |
Windows |
determines how a directory is displayed by Windows, such as the icon used by that directory |
| *.chw |
Extension |
HTML Help |
Compiled HTML Help general index |
|
|
|
|
Based on at least these earlier blog posts, and a lot of fiddling around:
Hopefully, some day, I will find time to compare these against gitignore templates, for instance via:
and against [WayBack] svn – How do I configure the TortoiseSVN ‘Global ignore pattern’ properly? – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen