Stolen from http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/master/.gitignore
(master) $ cat .gitignore
# use glob syntax.
syntax: glob
*.ser
*.class
*~
*.bak
*.off
*.old
.DS_Store
# logs
derby.log
#derby db
lift_example
# eclipse conf file
#.settings
#.classpath
#.project
.manager
# building
target
build
null
tmp*
temp*
dist
test-output
# other scm
.svn
.CVS
.hg*
# switch to regexp syntax.
# syntax: regexp
# ^\.pc/