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Whenever a new Android Studio project is created (I'm using Android Studio 3.4), the .gitignore content is as below.

*.iml .gradle /local.properties /.idea/caches /.idea/libraries /.idea/modules.xml /.idea/workspace.xml /.idea/navEditor.xml /.idea/assetWizardSettings.xml .DS_Store /build /captures .externalNativeBuild

Why isn't entire /.idea to be ignore but only the selective few? Are the remaining of any special use?

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  • There may be important metafata files inside the .idea directory. These files may be needed when importing the project. Commented May 29, 2019 at 5:11

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There are some that you generally want to check into version control (anything project-specific but not user-specific). See What to gitignore from the .idea folder? for more information. If you don't want to version control them, you can exclude the whole directory.

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Such as...? I can't think of anything that I'd want to change on other peoples' machines.
@ScottBiggs Probably things like the project structure, dependency info, build settings, etc.
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Excluding all .idea-data would also exclude gradle.xml

I guess this is important for building. But I am just guessing.

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