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I want to use a .gitignore file to ignore all folders beginning with a period (hidden folders of linux).
I can't figure out the syntax, though I'm sure it's simple.
How's it done?
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gitignore is a plain text file in which each line contains a pattern for files or directories to ignore. It uses globbing patterns to match filenames with wildcard characters. If you have files or directories containing a wildcard pattern, you can use a single backslash ( \ ) to escape the character.
You want to use /* instead of * or */ in most cases The above code would ignore all files except for . gitignore , README.md , folder/a/file. txt , folder/a/b1/ and folder/a/b2/ and everything contained in those last two folders.
The order of the rules in . gitignore doesn't seem to matter either.
Use one of these patterns:
# ignore all . files but include . folders .* !.*/ # ignore all . files and . folders .* # Dont ignore .gitignore (this file) # This is just for verbosity, you can leave it out if # .gitignore is already tracked or if you use -f to # force-add it if you just created it !/.gitignore # ignore all . folders but include . files .*/ What is this pattern?.* - This patter tells git to ignore all the files which starts with .
! - This tells git not to ignore the pattern. In your case /.gitignore
A demo can be found in this answer:
Git: how to ignore hidden files / dot files / files with empty file names via .gitignore?
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.*/ will match everything that starts with a dot and is a folder
With the following command you can test it: mkdir test && cd test && git init && mkdir -p .foo .foo/.bar foo/.bar && touch .foo/dummy .foo/.bar/dummy foo/.bar/dummy && git add . && git status && echo '.*/'>.gitignore && git reset && git add . && git status
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