Ignore parent directory in Git version control

Question

How to ignore parent directory in .gitignore? I tried this patterns, but seems they are don't work:

/../*
../
../*

Answer 1

If you want to ignore a folder but don't want to modify an existing .gitignore, drop a .gitignore in the folder containing only an asterisk.

*

Here is a quick BASH example to accomplish this task for the .idea folder:

$ echo '*' > .idea/.gitignore