How do I add org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs to gitignore?

Question

What regex do I use to add org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs to my .gitignore, so that it ignores all occurrences of this file?

Adding each occurrence separately or any regex like //org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs or /./org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs does not seem to help.

Answer 1

Adding org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs will work. However, I'm guessing that you committed the files to your repository already. .gitignore will not ignore files that have already been committed. So, you need to:

1. remove all org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs files from the repo
2. add line to gitignore
3. commit gitignore

And all of your prefs files will be ignored afterwards.