[JitenRajpurohit]

Reasons for making this change

Currently, the Java.gitignore provided in this repository focuses on core language artifacts but misses several critical files generated by the Spring Boot ecosystem and its integration with modern build tools (Maven/Gradle).

This new Spring.gitignore template provides:

• Build Tool Support: Specific ignores for Maven and Gradle wrappers and their temporary build directories (target/, build/).
• Spring Boot Specifics: Filtering out .sts4-cache, .springBeans, and local configuration files (.env, *.properties.local) that often contain sensitive secrets.
• IDE Integration: Support for Eclipse (STS), IntelliJ, and VS Code, which are the primary IDEs for Spring development.

Adding this as a standalone template allows developers to git init Spring projects with a "batteries-included" ignore file that prevents accidental commits of binary dependencies and local secrets.

Links to documentation supporting these rule changes

• Spring Boot Reference Guide: Executable Jar Layout (explains why target/ and build/ must be ignored).
• Spring Initializr (start.spring.io): The official Spring project generator includes a .gitignore by default; this PR aligns with the community standard set by the Spring team.
• Baeldung - Guide to Gitignore for Java: Standard Java/Spring Ignore Patterns.

[JitenRajpurohit]

Spring.gitignore is cleaned and production safe. It is slightly over-inclusive, not wrong.

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[dooleydevin]

I have a few requests to keep the template aligned with our other templates in this repo 👍

It's not a requirement, but if you feel strongly that we should point users to the global templates so they know where to find them, you can include a comment like

gitignore/Python.gitignore

Line 189 in d3feaa2

# PyCharm

or

gitignore/Unity.gitignore

Line 5 in d3feaa2

# Recommended: add any editor/OS/tool-specific ignore rules from the Global/ templates as needed.

[dooleydevin]

We intentionally don't include OS-specific ignores in our templates, reserving them for their own Global templates like: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/macOS.gitignore

Suggested change

	# OS
	.DS_Store
	Thumbs.db
	desktop.ini

[dooleydevin]

Similar to the OS-specific changes, we reserve IDE rules for their own Global templates like https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore

Suggested change

	# IDEs
	.idea/
	*.iml
	out/
	.vscode/

[dooleydevin]

I'd ask that we also remove the eclipse section in favor of the Global template: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/Eclipse.gitignore

Suggested change

	# Eclipse
	.classpath
	.project
	.settings/

[dooleydevin]

I'd ask that we move this under community/Java here: https://github.com/github/gitignore/tree/main/community/Java