What should be in my gitignore for Xcode 7

Question

With Xcode 7 finally released I was wondering what an appropriate setting for .gitignore was for Xcode projects in the new version, and whether the same settings that were applicable in XCODE 6 still apply.

NOTE This is XCODE 7 Specific. There are various answers for other version of XCODE but I am unaware if 7 adds any new files or types that should be added to the .gitignore.

Solution

Here's the one I tend to use:

.DS_Store
build
*.xcodeproj/*
!*.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

That will ignore .DS_Store files, the build directory, and everything in .xcodeproj files except the file that actually contains the project's settings. If you have shared schemes, you can also add

!*.xcodeproj/xcshareddata

as show here.

Comments

[Marco]

Look for Github gitignore file github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Xcode.gitigno‌​re

[Jeef]

This is an Xcode 7 specific question. That post you reference is for a different version of Xcode.

[Arkku]

I wouldn't ignore *.xcodeproj, rather ignore xcuserdata.

[mipadi]

@Arkku: project.pbxproj and xcshareddata (possibly) are really the only files in the a .xcodeproj that need to be tracked.

[Arkku]

True at the moment (unless it contains workspaces?), but I would rather blacklist than whitelist here, since a) currently it's simpler that way, and b) the contents of .xcodeproj could change without notice as it is a proprietary format…