Add ignore to ".vsconfig" file for unity #4721
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Add ignore to ".vsconfig" file
Reasons for making this change
The .vsconfigfile is auto-generated by Visual Studio to declare project-specific development environment dependencies (e.g., workloads, SDKs, extensions). Including it in version control causes several issues:
Toolchain pollution: It enforces rigid IDE configurations that may conflict with collaborators using alternative tools (e.g., VS Code, Rider, or macOS editors).
Redundancy: Unity/C# projects already manage core dependencies via ProjectSettings/and *.csprojfiles, making .vsconfignon-essential for builds or runtime.
Accidental environment sync: Tracking this file risks forcing unnecessary component installations (e.g., Android/iOS workloads) for contributors who don’t need them.
Ignoring .vsconfigaligns with Git’s best practices to exclude locally generated IDE artifacts (similar to .vscode/or .idea/).
Links to documentation supporting these rule changes
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GitHub’s official guidance on ignoring environment-specific files:
Ignoring Files - GitHub Docs.
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Visual Studio documentation stating .vsconfigis a user-specific configuration:
Customize Visual Studio workloads via .vsconfig.
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Unity.gitignore precedent: Existing templates (e.g., GitHub/Unity.gitignore) ignore analogous IDE artifacts like *.userprefsand ProjectSettings/EditorBuildSettings.asset.
If this is a new template
Not applicable. This change modifies the existing Unity.gitignoretemplate.
Merge and Approval Steps
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Implementation Example
The added rule in Unity.gitignore:
Visual Studio
.vsconfig # Environment configuration (workloads, SDKs)
This ensures .vsconfigis ignored universally across Unity projects using Visual Studio, reducing noise in commits and preventing toolchain conflicts.