Share Project with non-programmers

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Category: Version Control, setting up project/Version Control
I am currently working on a project (it is blueprint start with added c++) I’m about to bring on an an artist friend who doesn’t have programming experience.
for the Version Control most all the tutorials I have found focus on Blueprint projects. I know I will need to have the “Source”, “Content”, and maybe “Platforms” folder(s) included and that I want to purposely ignore “Intermediate”, “Saved”, “.vs”, “DirivedDataCache” folders, and the “.sln” file
several of the tutorials talk about not including the “Binaries” because of size, but then I have also seen a couple tutorials that for C++ projects “Binaries” should be included “for non-programmers”

-do non-programmers need VS? if .sln, “Binaries”, and “DirivedDataCache” are not included do they need to manually compile the project to work in the editor?
-what is the work-flow of a non-programmer after changes to Source do they delete some files/folders to have them be generated through (right-click Uproject->“Generate Visual Studio Files”, then launch VS to build and launch editor, then in Editor Build again)
-can a non-programmer in a C++ project launch the editor from Uproject and expect it to still work even after “Source” commit
-am I missing anything from ignore list, or should I not have something?

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We give our artists and non-devs everything. If they don’t need it they don’t use it.

Our SVN ignore on the Unreal Project folder looks like this. Its alphanumeric by category: (1) file types, (2) specific files, (3) folder names.

*.log
*.patch*
*.pdb
*.sln
*-Win64-*
*-ProjectName-0*.dll
*.vs

AutoScreenshot.png
ConsoleHistory.ini
EditorPerProjectUserSettings.ini
OpenImageDenoise.dll
tbb12.dll

Autosaves
Collections
Crashes
CrashReportClient
Debug
DerivedDataCache
Developers
HoloLens
Intermediate
Layouts
Logs
Saved
Script
WorldState
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Yes. As long as whoever makes code changes checks in the compiled binaries (or you are using a build server).

Non-programmers will open the Editor or launch Game with the .uProject file.

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They do not need VS. But the project binaries should be checked in. (at least thats what we have always done)

Preferably non-programmers should never have to compile. Either your programmers build and check in binaries after changes or you are using an automatic build system.