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Terraform .gitignore Template

Terraform local state files (.tfstate), provider cache (.terraform/), and crash logs. Generated and merged deterministically with upstream GitHub repository patterns to keep your repository clean of package directories, temporary build artifacts, and local environment files.

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### Terraform ###
# Local .terraform directories
.terraform/
# .tfstate files
*.tfstate
*.tfstate.*
# Crash log files
crash.log
crash.*.log
# Exclude all .tfvars files, which are likely to contain sensitive data, such as
# password, private keys, and other secrets. These should not be part of version
# control as they are data points which are potentially sensitive and subject
# to change depending on the environment.
*.tfvars
*.tfvars.json
# Ignore override files as they are usually used to override resources locally and so
# are not checked in
override.tf
override.tf.json
*_override.tf
*_override.tf.json
# Ignore transient lock info files created by terraform apply
.terraform.tfstate.lock.info
# Include override files you do wish to add to version control using negated pattern
# !example_override.tf
# Include tfplan files to ignore the plan output of command: terraform plan -out=tfplan
# example: *tfplan*
# Ignore CLI configuration files
.terraformrc
terraform.rc
# Optional: ignore graph output files generated by `terraform graph`
# *.dot
# Optional: ignore plan files saved before destroying Terraform configuration
# Uncomment the line below if you want to ignore planout files.
# planout
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Raw Terraform .gitignore

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# Local .terraform directories
.terraform/
# .tfstate files
*.tfstate
*.tfstate.*
# Crash log files
crash.log
crash.*.log
# Exclude all .tfvars files, which are likely to contain sensitive data, such as
# password, private keys, and other secrets. These should not be part of version
# control as they are data points which are potentially sensitive and subject
# to change depending on the environment.
*.tfvars
*.tfvars.json
# Ignore override files as they are usually used to override resources locally and so
# are not checked in
override.tf
override.tf.json
*_override.tf
*_override.tf.json
# Ignore transient lock info files created by terraform apply
.terraform.tfstate.lock.info
# Include override files you do wish to add to version control using negated pattern
# !example_override.tf
# Include tfplan files to ignore the plan output of command: terraform plan -out=tfplan
# example: *tfplan*
# Ignore CLI configuration files
.terraformrc
terraform.rc
# Optional: ignore graph output files generated by `terraform graph`
# *.dot
# Optional: ignore plan files saved before destroying Terraform configuration
# Uncomment the line below if you want to ignore planout files.
# planout

Key Pattern Breakdown

Execution Caches & Runtime Logs

Diagnostic logs, runtime metadata, test coverage reports, and incremental compiler caches that cause noisy repository diffs.

crash.logcrash.*.log

Source & Verification

License: CC0-1.0

Place this file in the root directory of your project as .gitignore. Changes take effect on newly added or untracked files.