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Cribbed directly from the Element Flatpak's .gitignore file at https://github.com/flathub/im.riot.Riot/blob/master/.gitignore, simply because Element is a pretty popular application. Note in particular that this covers all directories that will be created by the Flatpak tutorial's suggested `flatpak-builder` command: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html#build-and-install `repo` is the OSTree repository that the built Flatpak will be "published" to for testing, `.flatpak-builder` is an internal build directory, and `builddir` is another, user-specified build directory.
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Reasons for making this change
Flatpak is a widely-used Linux application packaging format that's available for install on basically every Linux distribution, and is installed out-of-the-box on many, including all Linux distributions in the Red Hat family and many distributions downstream of Ubuntu.
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Cribbed directly from the Element Flatpak's .gitignore file at https://github.com/flathub/im.riot.Riot/blob/master/.gitignore, simply because Element is a pretty popular application. (Important bit of context for those not familiar with Flatpak/Flathub packaging: the workflow for getting an app into Flathub, the de-facto public Flatpak repository, puts packaging files in a separate repository from the actual app.)
Note in particular that this covers all directories that will be created by the Flatpak tutorial's suggested
flatpak-buildercommand: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html#build-and-installrepois the OSTree repository that the built Flatpak will be "published" to for testing,.flatpak-builderis an internal build directory, andbuilddiris another, user-specified build directory.If this is a new template
Link to application or project’s homepage: https://flatpak.org/
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