Use case

Running flutter test --coverage generates the file coverage/lcov.info. As a generated file, it should not be added to version control, but the default .gitignore template does not prevent this.

Proposal

I propose that /coverage/ be added to the default .gitignore template that is generated by flutter create in order to circumvent this problem.

If a team wanted to record these files in version control, they would have to remove that entry. That strikes me as a reasonable cost given that the alternative is to have a high-churn generated file not being ignored by default.