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How do I use Gitignore file in Git?

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.

How do I ignore a specific folder in Git?

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 .

How do I access Git ignore?

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.

  1. Remove it from the project directory (without actually deleting it): git rm --cached doc/*
  2. If you don't already have a .gitignore, you can make one right inside of your project folder: project/.gitignore.
  3. Put doc/* in the .gitignore
  4. Stage the file to commit: git add project/.gitignore
  5. Commit: git commit -m "message".
  6. Push your change to 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

  • specifying by the specific filename. for example, to ignore a file
    called readme.txt, just need to write readme.txt in .gitignore file.
  • you can also write the name of the file extension. For example, to
    ignore all .txt files, write *.txt.
  • you can also ignore a whole folder. for example you want to ignore
    folder named test. Then just write test/ in the file.

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