If the .gitignore file is inlcuded in another project, it may be feasible to have a reference to origin.

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1826901/should-i-add-vcxproj-filter-files-to-source-control

Use the exact CC-0 license text

Rename 'IPython Notebook' comment to 'Jupyter Notebook'

Nanoc: Fix capitalisation + config filename

Update ExtJs.gitignore

ignore Visual Studio 6 workspace file

see e.g.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/1530193
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa241721(v=vs.60).aspx

Removed LaunchSettings.json from being committed

ignore public/storage for laravel 5

Ref: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/.gitignore#L2

Update/opencart

Extend C to ignore Visual Studio artifacts

Include shared settings, according to official docs

Added kernel module compilation results

Add .externalNativeBuild to Android gitignore

Add vendor folder to Go.gitignore

Add support for Cake.Net

Update Node.gitignore

Add `*.tgz`, the output of `npm pack`, or other build-steps.

Add .nfs files to Linux.gitignore

Added a few missed files from kernel compilation results

Adds kernel module compile to the ignore list.

Cake.Net creates a tools folder at the root which contains downloaded packages and should not be checked in.

Update Erlang.gitignore

/ebin can't be simply ignored because *.app should be put here.

[Erlang Applications](http://erlang.org/doc/design_principles/applications.html)
> 8.4  Directory Structure
> ebin - Contains the Erlang object code, the beam files. The .app file is also placed here.