After holding off for a while, I finally got round to moving all of my client projects into a single (private) GitHub repo and the whole process was a lot less painful than I expected it to be. In the end, I only had one issue and that was crafting my .gitignore file so that the WordPress core files for each project didn’t all get uploaded to my repo (that would be a sure way to upset the fine folks at GitHub). The file wasn’t too tough to get right, but I thought it worth sharing in case anyone else is struggling with the same thing.
So here is a .gitignore file that will exclude all WordPress core files from your repo so that only your themes and plugins will be uploaded – this works recursively, so that it will ignore all the copies of WordPress you have in the sub-folders of the repo.
| .htaccess | |
| wp-admin/ | |
| wp-includes/ | |
| wp-config.php | |
| */wp-content/uploads/ | |
| */wp-content/blogs.dir/ | |
| */wp-content/upgrade/ | |
| */wp-content/backup-db/ | |
| */wp-content/advanced-cache.php | |
| */wp-content/wp-cache-config.php | |
| */wp-content/index.php | |
| */wp-content/themes/index.php | |
| */wp-content/plugins/index.php | |
| */index.php | |
| *.log | |
| wp-content/cache/ | |
| wp-content/backups/ | |
| sitemap.xml | |
| sitemap.xml.gz | |
| wp-activate.php | |
| wp-app.php | |
| wp-blog-header.php | |
| wp-comments-post.php | |
| wp-config-sample.php | |
| wp-config.php | |
| wp-cron.php | |
| wp-links-opml.php | |
| wp-load.php | |
| wp-login.php | |
| wp-mail.php | |
| wp-pass.php | |
| wp-register.php | |
| wp-settings.php | |
| wp-signup.php | |
| wp-trackback.php | |
| xmlrpc.php | |
| license.txt | |
| readme.html |
This still includes a couple of core files named index.php. If I add index.php to the .gitignore it will then ignore them inside the folder for each individual plugin/theme. Is there a way around this?
Adding ‘/index.php’ should sort that out for you I think – haven’t tested it though.