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I understand this is supposed to be funny but when I saw it, I was just like "WTF...". Coincidentally, I did just start a very similar Github project myself yesterday. If you're looking for a real boilerplate boilerplate, here it is: https://github.com/abi/boilerplate . Right now, it includes a meaningful .gitignore for people who use UNIX and a README.md with the MIT license body. It's really supposed to be just for my personal needs/dev environment but I hope it's useful for the others who were equally disappointed by the contents of origin post too.

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I found myself either re-typing or cutting and pasting so much common code for numerous projects in different languages that I took what started as a template generator for Monkeybars and spun it off to a standalone boilerplate generator.

http://neurogami.github.com/rhesus/

I called it Rhesus since it was to make pieces for Monkeybars. :)

Yes, it includes a template for .gitignore.

It also allows for importing boilerplate templates from git repos.

It's one of those projects that evolves as I find I need this or that feature or behavior.

Sweet idea. You should try to make your usage documentation better (more concise and put it on the Github page) cos I'm having a hard time figuring out how to use it as well as the rationale behind each step.

I started writng some docs since the api and such has settled down. I have plans for a screencast too.

It's much better to ignore the files generated by your own tools with a global exclude file than to add them to every project's .gitignore.

  git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

It depends. It's often been with the case for me that since I'm an undergrad and a lot of my collaborators are not too experienced with Git that people don't have their global gitignores set properly. In this case, it's better to put the ignores along with the code that everyone's pulling from.

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