.gitignore for Salesforce.com projects

Git is my favorite version control system with incredible collaboration platforms like GitHub or Bitbucket. Thus I’d like to share some Salesforce.com related config for Git

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.project .settings .metadata salesforce.schema Referenced Packages *.sublime-project *.sublime-settings *.sublime-workspace apex-scripts/log build.properties config mm.log [/code]

Eclipse Related stuff Eclipse Platform is a base for Salesforce.com Official IDE thus in Salesforce projects you can find many configuration things which should not be added to a repository.

• .metadata – This folder contains metadata information of Eclipse plugins
• .project – Eclipse projectsalesforce.schema – just a file-placeholder for Salesforce Schema tool in Eclipse which is working with SOQL.
• Referenced Packages – information about installed managed packages

Mavensmate Related Stuff

During a past few years Mavensmate is going to be a primary IDE for Force.com developers. This IDE works on top of Sublime Text editor (Atom is also supported), thus the following files and folders must be excluded from git repository:

The first 3 file extensions are self-explained

• *.sublime-project *.sublime-settings *.sublime-workspace
• config – Mavensmate configuration
• apex-scripts/log – logs of execution Apex code from Mavensmate
• mm.log – Mavensmate logs

Apache Ant (Migration Tool) related stuff

build.properties – properties for Apache Ant which is used as a base for Salesforce.com Ant Migration Tool. This tool provides a build automation functionality. Especially for Force.com projects this file contains credentials and keys which should not be added into git repository.