as discussed in #4560, here is the fix (maybe not the final fix).

I'm not really confident with these modifications because I'm not using all OS/IDE/Targets. I'm using eclipse on linux and mostly target desktop and android so I think this fix should be validated by more contributors.

Has you can see, what I've done so far is :

• add leading slashes and full path to avoid unwanted ignore.
• removed some duplicates : for instance html/war/WEB-INF/deploy/ is useless with /html/war
• removed some IMO useless : tmp/
• move local.properties to gradle section

Note that I could use single wildcard instead of path for every sub project (for instance /*/dist/) but it could conflicts with some project specific folder structure.

@Tom-Ski : I don't really understand why you want to keep just one big file instead of dispatching some parts in related sub projects. It would be cleaner way for many reasons :

• make gitignore files more readable.
• avoid useless ignore when not targeting all platforms.
• easily manage sub folder renaming / moving.

Thanks to point me in the right direction in order to improve these changes.