My .gitignore for CakePHP projects.

.gitignore-cakephp

# OS X & Windows
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db

# App content files (normally uploaded by users)
/app/webroot/files/*
!/app/webroot/files/
!/app/webroot/files/empty

# CakePHP database.php
/app/Config/database.php

# CakePHP tmp
/app/tmp/*
!/app/tmp/

/app/tmp/cache/*
!/app/tmp/cache/
!/app/tmp/cache/empty

/app/tmp/cache/models/*
!/app/tmp/cache/models/
!/app/tmp/cache/models/empty

/app/tmp/cache/persistent/*
!/app/tmp/cache/persistent/
!/app/tmp/cache/persistent/empty

/app/tmp/cache/views/*
!/app/tmp/cache/views/
!/app/tmp/cache/views/empty

/app/tmp/logs/*
!/app/tmp/logs/
!/app/tmp/logs/empty

/app/tmp/sessions/*
!/app/tmp/sessions/
!/app/tmp/sessions/empty

/app/tmp/tests/*
!/app/tmp/tests/
!/app/tmp/tests/empty