我提交我的Pods目录。我不同意Pods目录是一个构建产物。事实上，我想说它绝对不是。它是应用程序源代码的一部分:没有它就无法构建!

我们更容易将CocoaPods视为开发工具，而不是构建工具。它不构建你的项目，它只是为你克隆和安装你的依赖项。为了能够简单地构建项目，不应该必须安装CocoaPods。

通过使CocoaPods成为构建的依赖项，您现在需要确保它在构建项目所需的任何地方都可用……团队管理员需要它，您的CI服务器需要它。通常，您应该始终能够克隆源存储库并进行构建，而不需要做任何进一步的工作。

如果你频繁切换分支，不提交pod目录也会造成巨大的麻烦。现在，每次切换分支时都需要运行pod install，以确保依赖项是正确的。当你的依赖关系稳定时，这可能不那么麻烦，但在项目早期，这是一个巨大的时间消耗。

我忽略了什么?什么都没有。Podfile，锁文件和Pods目录都被提交。相信我，这会帮你省去很多麻烦。缺点是什么?更大一点的回购?又不是世界末日。

对我来说，最重要的是将来证明你的来源。如果您计划让您的项目持续一段时间，而CocoaPods消失了，或者其中一个pod的源代码崩溃了，那么如果试图从存档中重新构建，那么您就完全不走运了。

这可以通过定期的全源档案来缓解。

Cocoapod文档中直接给出了答案。你可以看看“http://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html#should-i-ignore-the-pods-directory-in-source-control”。

Whether or not you check in your Pods folder is up to you, as workflows vary from project to project. We recommend that you keep the Pods directory under source control, and don't add it to your .gitignore. But ultimately this decision is up to you: Benefits of checking in the Pods directory After cloning the repo, the project can immediately build and run, even without having CocoaPods installed on the machine. There is no need to run pod install, and no Internet connection is necessary. The Pod artifacts (code/libraries) are always available, even if the source of a Pod (e.g. GitHub) were to go down. The Pod artifacts are guaranteed to be identical to those in the original installation after cloning the repo. Benefits of ignoring the Pods directory The source control repo will be smaller and take up less space. As long as the sources (e.g. GitHub) for all Pods are available, CocoaPods is generally able to recreate the same installation. (Technically there is no guarantee that running pod install will fetch and recreate identical artifacts when not using a commit SHA in the Podfile. This is especially true when using zip files in the Podfile.) There won't be any conflicts to deal with when performing source control operations, such as merging branches with different Pod versions. Whether or not you check in the Pods directory, the Podfile and Podfile.lock should always be kept under version control.

就我个人而言，我不检查Pods目录和内容。我不能说我花了很长时间来考虑这些影响，但我的推理是这样的:

Podfile引用了每个依赖项的特定标记或提交，因此pod本身可以从Podfile生成，因此它们更像一个中间构建产品而不是源代码，因此，在我的项目中不需要版本控制。

是否检入Pods文件夹取决于您，因为工作流程因项目而异。我们建议您将Pods目录置于源代码控制之下，不要将其添加到.gitignore中。但最终这个决定取决于你:

签入Pods目录的好处

克隆repo之后，项目可以立即构建和运行，甚至不需要在机器上安装CocoaPods。不需要运行pod install，也不需要连接互联网。 Pod构件(代码/库)总是可用的，即使Pod的源(例如GitHub)宕机。 克隆repo后，Pod工件保证与原始安装中的工件相同。

忽略Pods目录的好处

The source control repo will be smaller and take up less space. As long as the sources (e.g. GitHub) for all Pods are available, CocoaPods is generally able to recreate the same installation.(Technically there is no guarantee that running pod install will fetch and recreate identical artifacts when not using a commit SHA in the Podfile. This is especially true when using zip files in the Podfile.) There won't be any conflicts to deal with when performing source control operations, such as merging branches with different Pod versions. Whether or not you check in the Pods directory, the Podfile and Podfile.lock should always be kept under version control.

我建议使用GitHub的Objective-C gitignore。 具体来说，最佳实践是:

Podfile必须始终处于源代码控制之下。 Podfile。Lock必须始终处于源代码控制之下。 CocoaPods生成的工作区应该保持在源代码控制之下。 任何使用:path选项引用的Pod都应该保存在源代码控制下。 ./Pods文件夹可以保存在源代码控制下。

要了解更多信息，您可以参考官方指南。

来源:我是CocoaPods核心团队的成员，就像@alloy一样

尽管Pods文件夹是一个构建工件，但在决定是否将其置于源代码控制之下时，您可能会考虑以下原因:

CocoaPods is not a package manager so the original source of the library could be removed in future by the author. If the Pods folder is included in source control, it is not necessary to install CocoaPods to run the project as the checkout would suffice. CocoaPods is still work in progress and there are options which don’t always lead to the same result (for example the :head and the :git options currently are not using the commits stored in the Podfile.lock). There are less points of failure if you might resume work on a project after a medium/long amount of time.