What files and folders to include in .gitignore in Shopify Themes Development

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I'm new to Shopify Themes Development. I downloaded the free Shopify theme template using Themekit. I want to push the theme to Github but in VS Code it's showing that there are 156 files to be pushed on Github.

Folder names are: assets, config, layout, locals, sections, snippets, templates

File name: config.yml

That's obvious, this is not a way.

Can someone please tell me what files and folders i need to write in .gitignore So that those won't be pushed on Github.

Thanks in Advance!

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githubshopifygitignoreshopify-template
other than files that come from plug-in (app), assets like images,. everything is important. – Charles C.
I added config.yml file in .gitignore and pushed the remaining part. – Zain Sadaqat

2 Answers

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ThemeKit will only care about file inside assets, config, layout, locals, sections, snippets, templates folders, anything else will be ignored thus, not uploaded to shopify.

It is a good practice tho, ignore: config/settings_data.json you only want that to be updated in the theme customiser.

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Shopify has an example .gitignore in their starter theme. I'm not sure why they don't include settings_data.json but I would definitely include it. Here's what I'd use:

# Shopify #
###################
config.yml
config/settings_data.json

# OS generated files #
######################
.DS_Store
.DS_Store?
._*
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
ehthumbs.db
Thumbs.db