Cleanup .gitignore

[mdedetrich]

The current .gitignore file has a lot of IDE/Editor/OS settings which shouldn't sit inside .gitignore (thats what a global .gitignore is for).

This .gitignore was generated by Intellij which has a more precise template.

[eed3si9n]

I personally have a global exclude file for git but many other people do not seem to, and I can't count the number of times when I tried to reject pull request of people adding IDE-specific things into the .gitignore. Now I've sorted of given up, and let people add whatever they want into the .gitignore because I don't think it hurts anyone to have more ignores.

[mdedetrich]

Okay feel free to close the PR then, the current version is not doing any damage. There does however seem to be a lot of stuff there which seems quite odd and even ancient?

[mdedetrich]

This is an example of what I mean by odd

[eed3si9n]

Yea. I have no idea what that is.

[mdedetrich]

So I don't know how strongly you feel about this. The main reason why I did this change in the first place is as you can tell there is a lot of weird stuff in this .gitignore and it took me a few minutes to just create a nice clean one.

I can go through the .gitignore to just remove the really weird stuff but tbh almost every entry that isnt editor/IDE related seems wrong one way or another. I get your point about people not doing the proper thing and using a global .gitignore but in my view I don't think should block the PR. Assuming we merge this PR, if someone in the future submits a PR and then complains that their files are being committed and add an entry to the .gitignore you can always accept it.

Alternately I can just add the various IDE/OS specific entries we are talking about but to me this is unnecessary since no one is complaining about it now. In other words, while past contributors may have complained that doesn't mean future ones will and if they do they can always add onto .gitignore.

[eed3si9n]

ok I'll merge as is.