Contribution

• I'd be willing to implement this feature.

Describe the user story

When pnpm creates .pnpm-store/ inside a Git repository, its contents appear as untracked files unless the user manually adds the directory to .gitignore.
I think pnpm should handle this automatically.

Describe the solution you'd like

Automatically create a .gitignore inside pnpm-managed store directories containing:

*

This would prevent store files from appearing in git status without requiring changes to the project’s .gitignore.

Ruff and pytest already use this approach for their cache directories.

• Ruff: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/204⁠
• Ruff implementation: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/208⁠

Describe the drawbacks of your solution

• Adds a Git-specific file to the store.
• Care is needed with custom store paths to avoid ignoring unrelated files.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

Users can manually add .pnpm-store/ to their .gitignore, but I think tools should ideally ignore their own generated cache files.

Moving the store under node_modules/, as done in https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/13536⁠, also helps but does not cover every custom store location.

I’d be happy to work on a PR if the maintainers agree with this approach.