What's with the prohibition on ignoring the .idea directory?

[clink-aaron]

I tried sneaking a PR through adding .idea to the .gitignore, it was removed by maintainers.

It's not just this project though, I've found it seems to be a fairly common sentiment on other laravel projects.

As many of us are using phpstorm and other jetbrains products, this seems to be a no-brainer. it's an automatic entry in all my php projects. For those of us using CLI helpers it's exceptionally annoying to see there is untracked files, and run git status to ensure there isn't anything uncommitted that may have been missed.

I feel someone's sense of aesthetic is getting in the way of utility here.

TL;DR: let's use the .gitignore, that's what it's there for.

[atymic]

Add it to your global gitignore, save adding it to every PHP project :)
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/setting-up-a-global-gitignore-file/

[clink-aaron]

I suppose that's a better solution. How do I delete dis discussion? I can't find an option for doing so.

[atymic]

It's fine, leave it in case others ask :)