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sunghun
sunghun

Reputation: 1424

Git does not ignore files in my project

I am still struggling with Git. I have git local repos. It look like below:

project
  - .git
     - .gitignore
  - child [directory]
  - some files

.gitignore:

target/
logs/

.DS_Store

And I did.

git rm --cached .
git add .

I expected that the files and directories in .gitignore would not be tracked but it did not work. Nothing in the files were ignored.

What can I fix this?

Your answer would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 525

Answers (1)

Peter Lundgren
Peter Lundgren

Reputation: 9197

There are 3 places where you can configure ignoring files in git (and .git/.gitignore is not one of them). From highest to lowest precedence, they are:

  • A .gitignore in the same directory as the path, or in any parent directory. .gitignores are committed and versioned along with the rest of the project. There is commonly one in the root of the repository, but you can have as many as one per directory. This file should contain project specific things to ignore (build output and such).
  • A per repository file called .git/info/exclude. This file is not versioned and will only impact that repository.
  • A global file specified by the configuration variable core.excludesfile. It is typically placed in a users home directory named something like ~/.gitignore_global, but could be named anything. This file is also not versioned. It applies to all git repositories. This file should contain project agnostic things to ignore (editor files, operating system files).

In your case, you should create a .gitignore in the root of your project with the following in it:

target/
logs/

And then create a global gitignore for the .DS_Store rule in ~/.gitignore_global:

.DS_Store

Run git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global to enable that file.

See this helpful GitHub article and gitignore(5) for more information.

Upvotes: 2

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