robofanatic 21 hours ago

What does it do that I cant do in a notepad?

pmdfgy a day ago

Am I the only one who creates them manually and add an entry only when I see a file that should not be committed when I "git status" ?

I mean, .gitignore is a simple text file, editable from any tool. Why would anyone bother exporting such a file in JSON to then add it as a text file to a repository ?

I'm sorry, but I don't see any actual usage for this. There is no point in having a bloated .gitignore with things you don't even use.