How to remove storage folder from .gitignore file?

Question

My .gitignore file contains one big line:

/node_modules/public/hot/public/storage/storage/*.key/vendor/.idea/.vagrantHomestead.jsonHomestead.yamlnpm-debug.logyarn-error.log.env

Since I have a folder in my storage which contains all icons/images that are used in my website, I want that folder to be uploaded to github as well. Sadly it seems the whole public/storage folder is in gitignore so it's getting ignored.

Little side question - why does my gitignore file has a blank file name when looking at it in the root folder?

Answer 1

I think your .gitignore file is not correct then you should have one entry per line.

It looks a bit that you don't have the new line character in your file. If you need that folder in your project then remove that line from your file and add the folder.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore

Answer 2

So ever /entry should be on a new line?

Yes.

How can I know whether /public/storage/storage should be split into /public/storage and /storage or /public, /storage and /storage?

Each entry is relative to where the .gitignore is in the repo.
A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c" (again, relative to where the .gitignore is).

In order to check if your .gitignore does work, check the output of:

git check-ignore -v -- a/file/in/the/repo