In Github&#x27;s .gitignore template, too.<p>For example, most of the entries in the Python one are utterly inane, and won&#x27;t apply to your project. You can easily trim that file to 1&#x2F;5 it&#x27;s size. It includes the ignores for a bunch of directories I&#x27;ve never see any project ever have, two unit test frameworks, two web frameworks, pip&#x27;s files that are already better covered by virtualenv ignores, <i>four</i> different ways of naming your virtualenvs…<p>This isn&#x27;t measuring language complexity; this is someone trying to pre-cover any potential case generated by any popular-today third party library.