I think the problem you’re having is that in some earlier commit, you’ve accidentally added .DS_Store files to the repository. Of course, once a file is tracked in your repository, it will continue to be tracked even if it matches an entry in an applicable .gitignore file. You have to manually remove the .DS_Store files … Read more
Ideally your .gitignore should prevent the untracked (and ignored) files from being shown in status, added using git add etc. So I would ask you to correct your .gitignore You can do git add -u so that it will stage the modified and deleted files. You can also do git commit -a to commit only … Read more
The problem is that .gitignore ignores just files that weren’t tracked before (by git add). Run git reset name_of_file to unstage the file and keep it. In case you want to also remove the given file from the repository (after pushing), use git rm –cached name_of_file.
I was previously using the top-voted answer, but it needs a bit of cleanup, so here it is redone for Xcode 4, with some improvements. I’ve researched every file in this list, but several of them do not exist in Apple’s official Xcode documentation, so I had to go on Apple mailing lists. Apple continues … Read more
WARNING: it will delete untracked files, so it’s not a great answer to the question being posed. I hit this message as well. In my case, I didn’t want to keep the files, so this worked for me: git 2.11 and newer git clean -d -f . older git git clean -d -f “” If … Read more
Put this .gitignore into the folder, then git add .gitignore. * */ !.gitignore The * line tells git to ignore all files in the folder, but !.gitignore tells git to still include the .gitignore file. This way, your local repository and any other clones of the repository all get both the empty folder and the … Read more
The .gitignore file should be in your repository, so it should indeed be added and committed in, as git status suggests. It has to be a part of the repository tree, so that changes to it can be merged and so on. So, add it to your repository, it should not be gitignored. If you … Read more
You need to set up your global core.excludesfile configuration file to point to this global ignore file e.g: *nix or Windows git bash: git config –global core.excludesFile ‘~/.gitignore’ Windows cmd: git config –global core.excludesFile “%USERPROFILE%\.gitignore” Windows PowerShell: git config –global core.excludesFile “$Env:USERPROFILE\.gitignore” For Windows it is set to the location C:\Users\%username%\.gitignore. You can verify that … Read more
See the official GitHub’s “Collection of useful .gitignore templates”. The .gitignore for Visual Studio can be found here: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/VisualStudio.gitignore
If you exclude application/, then everything under it will always be excluded (even if some later negative exclusion pattern (“unignore”) might match something under application/). To do what you want, you have to “unignore” every parent directory of anything that you want to “unignore”. Usually you end up writing rules for this situation in pairs: … Read more