in which case, you can find more information here: `Github .gitignore`_

This way you can exclude files/folders often used by your IDE for all of your projects.

4. Copy ``app/config/parameters.yml`` to ``app/config/parameters.yml.dist``.

The ``parameters.yml`` file is ignored by Git (see above) so that machine-specific

settings like database passwords aren't committed. By creating the ``parameters.yml.dist``

file, new developers can quickly clone the project, copy this file to

``parameters.yml``, customize it, and start developing.

5. Initialize your Git repository:

4. Initialize your Git repository:

..code-block::bash

6. Add all of the initial files to Git:

5. Add all of the initial files to Git:

..code-block::bash

7. Create an initial commit with your started project:

6. Create an initial commit with your started project:

..code-block::bash

8. Finally, download all of the third-party vendor libraries by

7. Finally, download all of the third-party vendor libraries by

executing Composer. For details, see:ref:`installation-updating-vendors`.

At this point, you have a fully-functional Symfony2 project that's correctly