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Hi. I'm just starting with SST and creating a project with `npm init sst` does not produce a .gitignore file. Is this intended behavior?

Thx. May I ask why? If someone can point me to some previous discussion that'd be great.

I'm actually not sure if this is intended

<@U01JVDKASAC> and I had a convo about this a while ago 

<@U02H0KUJFH7> <@U01JVDKASAC> I'd also love to hear more about your reasoning to not setup a `.gitignore` file with some sane minimal defaults e.g. excluding `.env`  and the  `.build` and `node_modules` folders

We had quite some fun with removing credential from repositories in the past and while it's doable with some tooling to scrape those from history, preventing it from happening with a good default is preferable to my mind.

oh hmm.. we should fix this.. definitely should have `.gitignore` in there

<@U02H0KUJFH7> i recall our conversation was about the lock file :thinking_face:

<@U01MV4U2EV9> i just did a quick test:
• running `npm init sst` does NOT generate `.gitignore` file
• running `cd packages/create-sst &amp;&amp; yarn create-sst` inside the repo DOES generate `.gitignore`
Not sure what’s causing the differences. Can you take a look?

I noticed that if I `npm i create-sst` and go to `&lt;package_path&gt;/bin/presets/base/javascript/templates/` the .gitignore file is not there. However, it does appear in the GitHub repository. Hope that helps a bit.

that did help! basically told me that it wasn't getting shipped in the npm package

and npm has a bug around this, just shipped a workaround so latest version of create-sst will generate gitignores

Can confirm it's working for me now. That was rather fast :)