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Many of these categories are not 'languages' making it hard to make any conclusions beside 'people working with Joomla or VS seem to have some gigantic .gitignore template'.

too much code generators?

Typically you'd check in generated code; you'd exclude packages, compiled code, certain kinds of configuration and logs, etc.

Do you typically check in generated code? I think it depends on a lot of things. My understanding is the general rule of thumb is NOT to, except for certain cases (generation takes a long time, for instance)

Well, in the VS world generated code is typically generated once and open to modification post-generation, so yes.

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