Build files checked into master get changed when running app

[anselmbradford]

platforms/ios/cordova/console.log, platforms/ios/Trails/config.xml, and plugins/ios.json are changed from what's on master when using cordova serve ios and cordova emulate ios. This is not ideal, because someone making a feature branch will have updates to the above files included in their PR unless they manually discard the changes to those files. An option is to add platforms/* to the .gitignore file (this was the case earlier in the project, but /platform hadn't been removed from master) and add cordova platform add ios as a step in the readme. However if this can be avoided it'd be nice to not have to build the platform directory when first cloning the repository. I'm not sure what the status is with plugins, can this directory be ignored in .gitignore?

[lovehandle]

Yeah, let's ignore build specific stuff. I don't think plugins can be ignored, only because it contains configurations for external dependencies.

This may be a good start: https://gist.github.com/RandyMcMillan/2408032