ignore files named npm-debug.log.XXXXXX in .gitignore

Question

Does anyone knows how to ignore this file from the repository with .gitignore?

I'm using Gitlab.

I've already tried this:

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The gitignore line is correct, but git ignores it if some matching files are already pushed to the remote repository. It means the files are in the git index, so it will want to stage them until you remove it from index.

You could try to delete the file from the git index using

git rm --cached npm-debug.log.xxx

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