Use git rm: If you have already added the files to be tracked, you need to remove them from tracking: git rm env.local –cached git rm env.staging –cached git commit -m “Stopped tracking env.local, and env.staging” Now you should be able to clone your branch without those files being tracked. Note: Keep in mind that … Read more
To check what gitignore rule is causing a particular path to be ignored, run git check-ignore: git check-ignore -v path/to/check More info at man git-check-ignore.
Git does not support per-branch excludes files You’re trying to achieve something that Git does not support. The blog post is the original source of this hoax that the Stack Overflow answer only parroted. As noted in comments under that answer, even the original blog post contains a discussion that brings out that the solution … Read more
Answer is: Yes, it is possible to have a .gitignore file in a subfolder. Documentation: When deciding whether to ignore a path, Git normally checks gitignore patterns from multiple sources, with the following order of precedence, from highest to lowest (within one level of precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): Patterns read from … Read more
Use wildcards: Solution/*/bin/Debug Solution/*/bin/Release With version 1.8.2 of Git, you can also use the ** wildcard to match any level of subdirectories: **/bin/Debug/ **/bin/Release/
Yes, you may put comments in there. They however must start at the beginning of a line. cf. http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository#Ignoring-Files The rules for the patterns you can put in the .gitignore file are as follows: – Blank lines or lines starting with # are ignored. […] The comment character is #, example: # no .a files … Read more
Instead of creating a new .gitignore file, you should use the .git/info/exclude file to setup ignore rules specific to your clone of the repo. So, basically, go to your project root, and run cd $PROJECT_ROOT echo “*.iml” >> .git/info/exclude Note that the the pattern *.iml will take care of files of kind .*.iml as well, … Read more
It ignores all files whose name ends in ~, which is a usual suffix for text editors backup files. * is a special symbol and means “any sequence of zero or more characters”, while ~ is just an ordinary character. Putting the two parts together: “zero or more characters followed by a ~”.
Read this question. You want: # Blacklist everything * # Whitelist all directories !*/ # Whitelist the file you’re interested in. !*.cocci Note, this’ll track only *.cocci files. Yours doesn’t work because you ignore everything (that’s the first line), which ignores all subdirectories.
As mentionned in “ignoring doesn’t remove a file “ (the following quote the great article from Nick Quaranto, in his blog git ready “learn git one commit at a time”): When you tell Git to ignore files, it’s going to only stop watching changes for that file, and nothing else. This means that the history … Read more