[idle_zealot]

It makes sense to have global defaults specific to your machine if and only if your workflow (editor, personal tooling) creates files that you don't want as a part of any project. Things like vim or emacs temp files, macOS's DS Store files, etc. This doesn't apply if your team uses standardized editor configs.

[kyleee]

Tangentially you can set vims temp/swap files to something like ~/.vim/tmp/ so they don’t clutter repo directories. At least that’s my pref for this annoyance/clutter