Git doesn’t track directories, it tracks files, so to acheive this you need to track at least one file. So assuming your .gitignore file looks something like this: upload/* You can do this: $ touch upload/.placeholder $ git add -f upload/.placeholder If you forget the -f you’ll see: $ git add upload/.placeholder The following paths … Read more
Git doesn’t track folders, only files, so if you ignore everything in a folder, Git won’t have anything to track. You can add a .gitignore file to each directory (application/cache, application/cache/folder, application/cache/folder/onemorefolder/) with the following contents: * !.gitignore Then, you can add those directories, and only the .gitignore file in each directory will get added … Read more
@SimonBuchan is correct. Since git 1.8.2, Resources/** !Resources/**/*.foo works.
Yes, these rules are different. /dir will match a file, directory, link, anything named dir /dir/ will match only a directory named dir /dir/* will match all files, directories and anything else inside a directory named dir (but not the dir directory itself). /dir, /dir/ and /dir/* are NOT equivalent. The difference is very clear … Read more
If you try it that way, it’ll fail, because you’ll end up blacklisting the directories in your structure. To solve, you want to blacklist everything that is not a directory, and is not one of the file-types you want to commit, while not blacklisting directories. The .gitignore file that will do this: # First, ignore … Read more
You can have a .gitignore in every single directory of your project. However, the best practice is to have one single .gitignore file on the project root directory, and place all files that you want to ignore in it, like this: ignoredFile.whatever ignoredDirectory/* directory/ignoredFileInsideDirectory .svn Once you create the .gitignore file, the ignore files that … Read more
If the file is still displayed in the status, even though it is in the .gitignore, make sure it isn’t already tracked. git rm –cached config.php If you just want to ignore it locally, you could also make it ignored by the git status: git update-index –assume-unchanged config.php As commented, do note that using –assume-unchanged … Read more
There’re differences among www, www/ and www/*. Basically from the documentation and my own tests, www find a match with a file or a directory, www/ only matches a directory, while www/* matches directories and files inside www. I’ll only discuss on the differences between www/ and www/* here, since the differences between www and … Read more
You will have to clear the existing git cache first. Remove the cache of all the files git rm -r –cached . Remove the cache of specific file git rm -r –cached <file_name.ext> Once you clear the existing cache, add/stage file/files in the current directory and commit git add . // To add all the … Read more
You can mix Android.gitignore: # built application files *.apk *.ap_ # files for the dex VM *.dex # Java class files *.class # generated files bin/ gen/ # Local configuration file (sdk path, etc) local.properties with Eclipse.gitignore: *.pydevproject .project .metadata bin/** tmp/** tmp/**/* *.tmp *.bak *.swp *~.nib local.properties .classpath .settings/ .loadpath # External tool builders … Read more