For local ignores you should use the .git/info/exclude file, not .gitignore: Patterns which are specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside the repository but are specific to one user’s workflow) should go into the $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file. The two files … Read more
From git docs A leading “**” followed by a slash means match in all directories. For example, “**/foo” matches file or directory “foo” anywhere, the same as pattern “foo”. “**/foo/bar” matches file or directory “bar” anywhere that is directly under directory “foo”. For your case: **/[Tt]est* it also matches both upper and lower case.
They should almost always be included, as their purpose is to ignore “output” files (compiled binaries, log files) which are going to be generated by anybody working with a clone of your project. They’re meant to be version-controlled and included with the repository. You should not use .gitignore files within the repository to ignore files … Read more
Try My\ FolderName/Web.config or “My FolderName/Web.config”
This seems to be a better idea find . -type l | sed -e s’/^\.\///g’ >> .gitignore Find outputs a “./” prefix for all files. Unless you trim it off, gitignore is unable to act on them . Once you trim the “.\” at the beginning , it works like a charm
You know how to do it already. Yes, git add -f is the way. If you ask why… this is because git set a assume-unchanged bit internally. This bit make git think the file is not modified, so git add won’t add it. If you want to mess with the implementation details, you can use … Read more
Just make the line in .gitignore as specific as you want it to be: ledgerware/static/*
.gitignore only applies to untracked files. If you are tracking a .pyc then .gitignore won’t apply. Remove the .pyc with git rm and next time you do a git status it (and any others) won’t show up in the list of untracked file and nor will it be automatically added. Otherwise if you need to … Read more
I’m new to .gitignore, so there may be better ways to do this, but I’ve been excluding files by file size using: find . -size +1G | cat >> .gitignore Obviously you’ll have to run this code frequently if you’re generating a lot of large files.
In #git, you said you unintentionally added a directory that should have been ignored, so run git rm –cached -r directory-name to recursively remove the tree rooted at directory-name from the index. Don’t forget to update .gitignore!