Spigot-GitIgnore The defaults I use for my plugins on our survival Minecraft server: WilderCraft (play.wildercraft.net) How to use Add this file to your project git repo run git add .gitignore && git commit -m 'added gitignore spigot defaults from redbau' Optionally you can run this to remove files from your repo that shouldn't be in here now: git rm --cached `git ls-files -i --exclude-from=.gitignore` That's it! This will keep a lot of crufty files out of your git repo now