How to Setup a Gitignore File for a Unity Git Project

How to Setup a Gitignore File for a Unity Git Project

Greetings, in this Unity Git tutorial we shall be looking at how to setup a gitignore file for your Unity project. This is a super quick tutorial and we will be using the gitignore that is the default option Github provides. You can customise this gitignore to suit the needs of your project.

To create a gitignore file, we need to go to our Unity project that we have setup with git. Then we need to make a file, this file will have no name and will have the .gitignore file extension.

COPY THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO TYPE THE Git Ignore: .gitignore

Once we have the gitignore created, we need to add some text to the file.

You can open the gitignore using any text editor. Then paste the text into the gitignore file. After that, save the file and voila, the gitignore will tell this git repo to ingore certain files. These files don't need to be pushed and pulled by git as they are either temp files or files Unity will generate locally.

Also make sure the gitignore is in the root of the project directory. If you are unsure what that means, put the gitignore where I put in in this unity github tutorial.

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This will work for any git project, you don't have to use github desktop!

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How to Setup a Gitignore File for a Unity Git Project

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[joeyjax]

Thank you for this tutorial very informative!

[travisperry]

Fantastic man! This allowed me to cut a lot of the clutter from Unity out of my repository. I was looking for exactly this information as I had created a github repository for my Unity project already using github desktop (forgetting to add gitignore) and did not want to have to delete it in order to filter out all of the unnecessary files. Thank you for this :)