Before merging this PR and/or pulling the changes down to your local branch, be sure to back up your local repository. _You will lose all of your .user files, publish profiles, other private machine-specific files, etc.
This PR removes build files, packages, and other heavy weight and/or unnecessary-to-be-tracked files from Git.
After you back up your local repo, then you can merge the PR, pull it down to your local repo, then extract your archived local repo into your current local repo, restoring your personal files while no longer tracking them.
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This PR removes build files, packages, and other heavy weight and/or unnecessary-to-be-tracked files from Git.
After you back up your local repo, then you can merge the PR, pull it down to your local repo, then extract your archived local repo into your current local repo, restoring your personal files while no longer tracking them.
Fixes #2