Is there a way to ignore all files of a type in a directory?
**
is apparently meaningless to git, so this doesn't work:
/public/static/**/*.js
The idea is to match arbitrary nested folders.
If you want to ignore a file that you've committed in the past, you'll need to delete the file from your repository and then add a . gitignore rule for it. Using the --cached option with git rm means that the file will be deleted from your repository, but will remain in your working directory as an ignored file.
A . gitignore file is a plain text file where each line contains a pattern for files/directories to ignore. Generally, this is placed in the root folder of the repository, and that's what I recommend. However, you can put it in any folder in the repository and you can also have multiple .
gitignore file is usually placed in the repository's root directory. However, you can create multiple . gitignore files in different subdirectories in your repository.
The easiest and most common way to ignore files is to use a gitignore file. Simply create a file named . gitignore in the repository's root directory. Then, add names and patterns for any files and directories that should not be added to the repository.
It would appear that the **
syntax is supported by git
as of version 1.8.2.1
according to the documentation.
Two consecutive asterisks ("
**
") in patterns matched against full pathname may have special meaning:
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
".A trailing "
/**
" matches everything inside. For example, "abc/**
" matches all files inside directory "abc
", relative to the location of the.gitignore
file, with infinite depth.A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash matches zero or more directories. For example, "
a/**/b
" matches "a/b
", "a/x/b
", "a/x/y/b
" and so on.Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid.
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