basic file let us say this is for #2

.gitignore

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+## Make docs less bad.
+perl/docs/*
+javascript/docs/*
+
+## Don't generally want Selenium log files.
+selenium/*/*.log
+ghostdriver.log
+screenshots*
+
+## Ignore the npm stuff that we now have.
+node_modules
+
+## Ignore generated data in sub-modules.
+javascript/npm/amigo2-instance-data/lib/data
+javascript/npm/amigo2-instance-data/doc
+javascript/npm/bbop-widget-set/doc
+
+## Ignore generated data.
+perl/bin/amigo-base-statistics-cache.json
+
+## Don't want the virtualenv stuff for python leaking in.
+test-app/behave/'pwd'
+test-app/behave/screenshots*
+test-app/behave/pymote_env
+test-app/behave/Scripts
+test-app/behave/virtualenv.exe
+
+test-app/behave/bin
+test-app/behave/include
+test-app/behave/lib
+test-app/behave/local
+
+## Do not want to commit staging files.
+staging/*.js
+javascript/staging/*.js
+staging/*.dat
+javascript/staging/*.dat
+
+## Do not commit our TAGS
+TAGS
+
+## My my_rhino workaround should never be committed.
+my_rhino
+
+## NaturalDocs data files change too much and shouldn't be modified.
+perl/docs/.naturaldocs_project/Data
+javascript/docs/.naturaldocs_project/Data
+
+## Local conf files should be ignored.
+conf/amigo.yaml*
+conf/config.pl
+
+## Files as part of the data conversion rollout to be ignored.
+perl/bin/config.pl
+perl/bin/xrefs.json
+
+## Emacs things (from 
+## https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Emacs.gitignore).
+*~
+\#*\#
+/.emacs.desktop
+/.emacs.desktop.lock
+.elc
+auto-save-list
+tramp
+.\#*
+# Org-mode
+.org-id-locations
+*_archive
+
+## Would rather not have the minimal java stuff pollute.
+*.class
+
+
+stage_dir
+.terraform
+.terraform.lock.hcl
+terraform.tfstate
+terraform.tfstate.backup
+
+s3cfg
+backend.tf
+go-ssh
+go-ssh.pub
+production-vars.txt
+config.yaml
+production-*.cfg
+production-*.tfvars.json
+config-instance.yaml
+config-stack.yaml