What should be in gitignore for visual studio?

No need to add *.sln to .gitignore . In the sln files, the studio stores the structure of the project and the connections between the elements. If you later roll back to an earlier commit, this will confuse the studio a lot, it will have to re-build the connections. Therefore, they need to commit along with other files.

Just in case, I’ll leave here a copy of the current state of .gitignore from the github :

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