Git for Visual Studio Developers–Get your .gitignore right and save yourself needless merges

Overview
When using Visual Studio with Git, you probably want to ignore baggage files that may result in repository merge issues on a regular basis. 

Check out the following link for an explanation on how to add the appropriate files to your .gitignore file list. https://adamstephensen.com/2014/05/13/update-your-gitignore


The following link takes you to the raw .gitignore example file
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/VisualStudio.gitignore