I think it would be more useful to have one PR that ignores basic ignore files, like in swap files and such as well. I can write that out, but you're more than welcome to add them yourself

I think adding these should be good enough:

# Mac files
.DS_Store

# Vim files
[._]*.s[a-w][a-z]
*~

Well, since you asked for it, I did a much more comprehensive edit (a rewrite at this point) on the file. Updated the commit and PR messages accordingly. What do you think?

@BYK this might be a little too much for my taste. I think less is more. We haven't had an issue of accidentally committing editor files, so it may be best to put this off until the problem arises.

@nfischer - alright, removed a bunch of stuff. What do you think? :)

@BYK: Hmm... What about gitignore.io?

That would probably be more comprehensive, but I'm not really super strict either way. So LGTM. @nfischer: What do you think? I'm happy either way, so feel free to merge.

LGTM