Remove *.xcscheme from Global/Xcode.gitignore,Objective-C.gitignore and…

[nrbrook]

… Swift.gitignore

Xcode schemes should be held under source control when shared. When not shared they are stored in xcuserdata, so are already ignored. Therefore ignoring *.xcscheme is incorrect, as far as I'm aware.

[shiftkey]

@nrbrook do you have a supporting link which discusses this? I'd love something (semi-)official to point other curious people to...

[nrbrook]

There is nothing specific, but some references to sharing schemes in Apple's documentation.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-scheme_editor/Articles/SchemeShare.html

To automate an integration, you share its scheme, commit it with your project to a source repository...

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-scheme_editor/Articles/SchemeManage.html

Shared. Specifies that the scheme is visible to anyone using that project or workspace (depending on where the scheme is stored). If you designate a scheme as shared, be sure to check with others who use the project or workspace before modifying or deleting it.

[shiftkey]

So sharing this file seems like something that should be opt-in (either explicitly add the file or delete the line from the gitignore file) because perhaps people don't want to share these schemes.

Instead of removing this rule, should keep it around and annotate it to explain when you should be committing this file?

[nrbrook]

'Sharing' is opt-in – schemes by default are not shared, and are stored in xcuserdata directory, which is ignored already here. But when you enable sharing on a scheme, Xcode moves it to the xcshareddata directory, and it should be committed. As far as I'm aware, xcschemes are only placed in those two locations. As such, the wildcard to ignore all scheme files is unnecessary.

The most popular answer on stack overflow does not ignore *.xcscheme.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49478/git-ignore-file-for-xcode-projects

[shiftkey]

@nrbrook thanks for the extra context!