How to config gitignore?

Question

I want to ignore some of my files (/config/environments/production.rb , /webrat.log , /config/database.yml ). My gitignore:

/.bundle
/db/*.sqlite3
/doc/
*.rbc
*.sassc
.sass-cache
capybara-*.html
.rspec
/vendor/bundle
/log/*
/tmp/*
/public/system/*
/coverage/
/spec/tmp/*
**.orig
rerun.txt
pickle-email-*.html

/config/environments/production.rb
/config/*.yml
/*.log

But this doesn't work. What's wrong?

Answer 1

If "database.yml" got added to your git repo before you specified it in the ignore file, I think you have to remove it:

git rm config/database.yml
git commit -a -m "Removed database.yml"

Then, add database.yml file in your project, will work fine.

Answer 2

What you did is correct. Probably you have already added these files, before making .gitignore.

So Try this

git rm -r --cached .   (Note the period at the end.)
git add .

Then check whether the files that you put in ignore is still added to the index. Or you could modify them and check whether they are being tracked.

Answer 3

If those files were already added to the index, you need to remove them first.

git rm --cache /config/environments/production.rb
git rm --cache /webrat.log 
git rm --cache /config/database.yml 

Then the .gitignore can work on those files.