If you’re using Windows, it will not let you create a file without a filename in Windows Explorer. It will give you the error “You must type a file name” if you try to rename a text file as .gitignore To get around this, I used the following steps. Create the text file gitignore.txt Open … Read more
Updated to Android Studio 3.0 Please share missing items in comments. A late answer but this alternative answer was not right for us … So, here’s our gitignore file: #built application files *.apk *.ap_ *.aab # files for the dex VM *.dex # Java class files *.class # generated files bin/ gen/ # Local configuration … Read more
Before version 1.8.2, ** didn’t have any special meaning in the .gitignore. As of 1.8.2 git supports ** to mean zero or more sub-directories (see release notes). The way to ignore all directories called bin anywhere below the current level in a directory tree is with a .gitignore file with the pattern: bin/ In the … Read more
Create a file named .gitignore in your project’s directory. Ignore directories by entering the directory name into the file (with a slash appended): dir_to_ignore/ More information is here.
Remove existing .DS_Store files from the repository: find . -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 git rm -f –ignore-unmatch Add this line: .DS_Store to the file .gitignore, which can be found at the top level of your repository (or create the file if it isn’t there already). You can do this easily with this command … Read more
From the relevant Git documentation: 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 .git/info/exclude file has the same format as any … Read more
Even if you haven’t tracked the files so far, Git seems to be able to “know” about them even after you add them to .gitignore. WARNING: First commit or stash your current changes, or you will lose them. Then run the following commands from the top folder of your Git repository: git rm -r –cached … Read more
An optional prefix ! which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will override lower precedence patterns sources. # Ignore everything * # But not these files… !.gitignore !script.pl !template.latex # etc… # …even if they are in subdirectories !*/ # … Read more
.gitkeep isn’t documented, because it’s not a feature of Git. Git cannot add a completely empty directory. People who want to track empty directories in Git have created the convention of putting files called .gitkeep in these directories. The file could be called anything; Git assigns no special significance to this name. There is a … Read more
To untrack a single file that has already been added/initialized to your repository, i.e., stop tracking the file but not delete it from your system use: git rm –cached filename To untrack every file that is now in your .gitignore: First commit any outstanding code changes, and then, run this command: git rm -r –cached … Read more