If there are no more changes required to the pull request it could do with a bunch of likes from racketeers and maybe a supportive comment from maintainers of racket/racket to attract attention of the maintainers of https://github.com/github/gitignore
PR: https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/3943
*~
.DS_Store
compiled/
/doc/
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I think the case for
*~
is much stronger than that for
.DS_Store
because DrRacket itself generates these files.
The they can both stay?
Keep in mind this is for beginners to have a good first experience. More experienced developers will customise this or have a global default.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I thumbs-upped the pull request; I wouldn't torpedo the existing PR by expressing doubt on that github issue's comment chain. This is something that can be edited later or never; the proposal is a clear improvement on what's there now (that is, nothing at all).
I agree -- I think the PR looks good! Even if the maintainers think that e.g. .DS_Store shouldn't be in there because they prefer that stuff to be in /Global, or whatever, I'm sure they'll give you that feedback.
Should the .gitignore include
.bak
for windows users?
For what it's worth, omitting # files works better for me than not omitting them. An unsaved change is rarely something that I want to keep, because I've normally just run a build/tests that use the saved files. Instead, a # file is usually because I accidentally typed < instead of Meta-< at some point when trying to jump to the start of something that I'm merely reading (and I haven't quit the editor). Omitting # files almost certainly saves me more trouble than having them added in the racket/racket repo. Also, putting rules in a machine-specific configuration is not a good solution for me, because I spend a lot of time on short-lived virtual machines or Docker containers, and it's sometimes easiest to push repairs from those environments.
All that said, I don't have a strong opinion for raco pkg new.
I’ve closed the PR request for raco pkg new.
After a comment in the PR
@MystPi MystPi commented 10 days ago •
What about .bak files? 3.5 DrRacket Files They are the *~ for Windows.
https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/3943 is currently
.DS_Store
compiled/
/doc/
*~
*.bak
\#*
.\#*
I think this is about right as it means new users will get a sensible default .gitignore that will hold them over until they are doing their own /Global gitignore configuration.
More feedback is encouraged.
PS
If anyone knows a way to get the attention of the maintainers of https://github.com/github/gitignore so the PR can be merged that would be appreciated
Just merged 
Not yet available😭