gitignore template

[wbuchanan]

• [x] Create example .gitignore file to help prevent people from pushing data into their repositories

[wbuchanan]

This is what I've thought of thus far:

.DS_Store
*.RData
*.rdata
*.Rds
*.rds
*.Rda
*.rda
*.dta
*.sav
*.sas7bdat
*.csv
*.xls
*.xlsx
*.ini
*.dat
.Rproj.user
.Rhistory

This gets stored in the file ${HOME}/.git_template/info/exclude and when the [init] parameter of the .gitconfig file points to the ${HOME}/.git_template directory for the template it automatically excludes these files from the repository.

[wbuchanan]

I still need to get a windows machine to find the location of the config files by default in that environment, but this issue can get closed unless @nathant23, @jsonbecker, and/or @daphnejenkins have any other ideas about potential ignore parameters that we might want to consider? I'll also take a look at the file extensions listed in StatTransfer to make sure we get the most comprehensive coverage of different forms of files that would be most likely to contain data/PII.

[wbuchanan]

Just pushed a commit into the conventions branch to address this and a ton of other file formats that all could potentially contain data and/or configuration information.