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I need to use .gitignore to exclude a directory in the root of my repository. However, other directories with the same name exist deeper in the directory tree, and I need those to be included. It seems that when I put the name of the directory into .gitignore, it catches all of these directories, not just the one I need to ignore. I understand that .gitignore is actually not a list of files, but patterns. So how can I construct a pattern to ignore just a file in my root directory, but not files with the same name further down?
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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 .
Excluding local files without creating a .Use your favorite text editor to open the file called . git/info/exclude within the root of your Git repository. Any rule you add here will not be checked in, and will only ignore files for your local repository.
Use a leading /
/file.x That will only match a top level file.x but not one lower down, in "want/file.x", say.
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