Based on a template from jmoody

reledmac use one individual file by series of endnotes : 

Update Python.gitignore

Add Code Recommenders directory

Code Recommenders introduced in Eclipse Luna (4.5) creates a .recommenders directory at the root of the workspace, like .metadata

Update JetBrains.gitignore according to the official knowledge base article

Incorrect file path

Adding more files to ignore when using minitoc

Allow for ignoring other important files and save space

Update Eagle.gitignore

DerivedData and xcuserdata are folders; *.xcuserstate is always inside

Document Vim file patterns

Add Tern plugin to Eclipse.gitignore

Add local_settings to Django's ignore

Update VisualStudio.gitignore

Qt: ignore CMakeLists.txt.user

Add *.VC.opendb for UnrealEngine

Add .byebug_history to gitignore

.byebug_history included in default Rails5 setup (https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/gitignore)

Add *.VC.opendb to the .gitignore for the UnrealEngine for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 users. This reflects the changes in the VisualStudio.gitignore made in https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/1778 and https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/1783 but is more specifically targeted at solving the issue http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34319008/git-issue-with-visual-studio-2015-update-1 .

Ignore default Emacs server auth dir

The server-auth-dir is where Emacs stores authentication files for Emacs
servers (running over TCP). These are (usually) ephemeral in nature, and
should be ignored.

Ignore .venv files created by auto-activation scripts

Update license year to 2016

Update Node.gitignore

Ipython Notebook checkpoints

Ignore files generated by NuGet v3 project.json

Ignore playground files

Comments

Just added some comments. Some of us don't need some of the lines in the file.