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Posted by Roman Mayer
Roman Mayer
10,925 Points

Which project files should be included in a GitHub repository?

Hi there,

when create a repository from IntelliJ, which files and folders of the project should go into my repositories?

I'm talking about a Gradle project.

For example, the libraries don't need to go onto GitHub, because when I upload the build.gradle file, people know about the dependencies and can download the libraries. So, what other files can I omit?

Would love to hear your thoughts on this :)

Roman

1 Answer

markmneimneh
markmneimneh
14,133 Points

I recommend looking here https://www.gitignore.io/

Hope this helps. if this answers your question, please mark question as answered.

Roman Mayer
Roman Mayer
10,925 Points

okay, watched the tutorial and created a .gitignore file. thanks a lot :) I still have a lot to learn about Git and GitHub though. Is there a way to remove the files (which I'm now ignoring), if they are already in my GitHub repository? from a previous push