Should packer_compiled.lua be checked into version control ?

[nicos68]

I've checked on some well-known nvim/nvim plugin developers and they use packer but do not push their packer_compile.lua file to their repos. I even watched a video where the author says it should be put to .gitignore. But I've seen that the main devleoper of packer has it in his dotfiles repo, and it seems reasonable to me, as it looks like some sort of package-lock.json for packer.

What is the intent/view of the authors of packer about this detail ? Is there so good practice or does it depend ?

[rootix]

Not sure if you ever got your answer somewhere else, but i searched for this same question and found #462 which makes me ignoring this file in git.