# What files do you put in your .gitignore for GitHub to ignore

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/what-files-do-you-put-in-your-gitignore-for-github-to-ignore/98827>\
**Category:** Integrations\
**Tags:** integrations, katalon-studio\
**Created:** [October 9, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/what-files-do-you-put-in-your-gitignore-for-github-to-ignore/98827 "2023-10-09T19:34:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![naomy.arnold](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/naomy.arnold/32/24883_2.png) [@naomy.arnold](https://forum.katalon.com/u/naomy.arnold)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/what-files-do-you-put-in-your-gitignore-for-github-to-ignore/98827/1 "2023-10-09T19:34:35Z")

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Hello Katalon community

I am curious as to what files we should put in **.gitignore** file… should I also add .cache files?

this is what I have at the moment

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/original/3X/f/e/fe898b061e1480dd8d8982ad133dbbc87f260eb8.png)

Do I remove the slashes in front of these?  
/bin/  
/Libs/  
/.settings/  
/.classpath  
.svn/

anyone can screenshot what they have?

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Hein](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/brandon_hein/32/1092_2.png) [@Brandon\_Hein](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Brandon_Hein)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/what-files-do-you-put-in-your-gitignore-for-github-to-ignore/98827/2 "2023-10-09T20:20:47Z")

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Give this topic from @kazurayam a read:

> [@.gitignore template for Katalon Studio](http://forum.katalon.com/t/gitignore-template-for-katalon-studio/9793):
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> Once I created a project of Katalon Studio, add/commited all the files without .gitignore. Soon I found that in a Katalon Studio there are many files which I should “.gitignored”. Here is .gitignore file which I inserted into my project of Katalon Studio. \*.class \*.swp Libs/TempTestCase\* Libs/TempTestSuite\* bin/lib/TempTestCase\* Reports/ I want Katalon team to review my .gitignore. Rather I would request the Team to publish the best useful .gitignore template. You may propose to add it to “[a …](https://github.com/github/gitignore)

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**Author:** ![naomy.arnold](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/naomy.arnold/32/24883_2.png) [@naomy.arnold](https://forum.katalon.com/u/naomy.arnold)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/what-files-do-you-put-in-your-gitignore-for-github-to-ignore/98827/3 "2023-10-09T20:34:43Z")

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Thank you I was just reviewing this. Thank you.