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.
gitignore with contents /bin will make it ignore files or folders named bin in th esame folder as the . gitignore . If you want to specify that bin should be a folder, then put a trailing slash. To sum it up, using /bin/ will ignore only the bin folder in the same folder of the .
Windows users can open GITIGNORE files with the built-in Notepad program or with the free Notepad++ application. To open GITIGNORE files on macOS, you can use Gedit. Linux users (as well as Windows and macOS) might find Atom useful for opening and editing GITIGNORE files.
So based on what you said, these files are libraries/documentation you don't want to delete but also don't want to push to github
. Let say you have your project in folder your_project
and a doc directory: your_project/doc
.
git rm --cached doc/*
.gitignore
, you can make one right inside of your project folder: project/.gitignore
. doc/*
in the .gitignore git add project/.gitignore
git commit -m "message"
. github
.If you dont have a .gitignore file, first use:
touch .gitignore
then this command to add lines in your gitignore file:
echo 'application/cache' >> .gitignore
Be careful about new lines
git ignore is a convention in git. Setting a file by the name of .gitignore
will ignore the files in that directory and deeper directories that match the
patterns that the file contains. The most common use is just to have one file
like this at the top level. But you can add others deeper in your directory
structure to ignore even more patterns or stop ignoring them for that directory
and subsequently deeper ones.
Likewise, you can "unignore" certain files in a deeper structure or a specific
subset (ie, you ignore *.log but want to still track important.log) by
specifying patterns beginning with !
. eg:
*.log !important.log
will ignore all log files but will track files named important.log
If you are tracking files you meant to ignore, delete them, add the pattern to you .gitignore file and add all the changes
# delete files that should be ignored, or untrack them with
# git rm --cached <file list or pattern>
# stage all the changes git commit
git add -A
from now on your repository will not have them tracked.
If you would like to clean up your history, you can
# if you want to correct the last 10 commits
git rebase -i --preserve-merges HEAD~10
then mark each commit with e
or edit
. Save the plan. Now git will replay
your history stopping at each commit you marked with e. Here you delete the
files you don't want, git add -A
and then git rebase --continue
until you
are done. Your history will be clean. Make sure you tell you coworkers as you
will have to force push and they will have to rebase what they didn't push yet.
There is a file in your git root directory named .gitignore
. It's a file, not a command. You just need to insert the names of the files that you want to ignore, and they will automatically be ignored. For example, if you wanted to ignore all emacs autosave files, which end in ~
, then you could add this line:
*~
If you want to remove the unwanted files from your branch, you can use git add -A
, which "removes files that are no longer in the working tree".
Note: What I called the "git root directory" is simply the directory in which you used git init
for the first time. It is also where you can find the .git
directory.
If you don't have a .gitignore file. You can create a new one by
touch .gitignore
And you can exclude a folder by entering the below command in the .gitignore file
/folderName
push this file into your git repository so that when a new person clone your project he don't have to add the same again
There are several ways to use gitignore git
just create a .gitignore file and write in whatever you want to ignore a sample gitignore file would be:
# NPM packages folder.
node_modules
# Build files
dist/
# lock files
yarn.lock
package-lock.json
# Logs
logs
*.log
npm-debug.log*
# node-waf configuration
.lock-wscript
# Optional npm cache directory
.npm
# Optional REPL history
.node_repl_history
# Jest Coverage
coverage
.history/
You can find more on git documentation gitignore
on my mac i found this file .gitignore_global
..it was in my home directory hidden so do a ls -altr
to see it.
I added eclipse files i wanted git to ignore. the contents looks like this:
*~
.DS_Store
.project
.settings
.classpath
.metadata
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