There are 49K commits on GitHub using a message from a StackOverflow answer (stackoverflow.com)

That's fair enough - it's not as if people are committing copyrighted code, they're finding/using a solution to a problem and just pasting the same comment.

The same lines of code are spread across blogs/tech pages across the internet:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22.gitignore+is+now+working...