Template .gitignore with quarto create-project

[dmbates]

Is there a template .gitignore file for a quarto project. I am interested in what files in the _book directory should be kept in a git repository and which can be safely omitted because they will be regenerated.

If there is such a file, could it be added to the files installed by quarto create-project?

[jjallaire]

Currently we don't create the .gitignore file upon create-project but rather we do it during quarto render if we see that the project is within a git repo (the idea being not to auto-create files not strictly required).

Note that this logic currently resolves to the following .gitignore for all projects:

/.quarto/

Additionally, if we detect a Python virtual environment in env/ we add that as well:

/.quarto/
/env/

Again, all of this occurs during quarto render rather than quarto create-project.