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JMSAZ2013
JMSAZ2013

Reputation: 713

Why is git still trying to add the classpath files?

I am working on a windows computer with cygwin using git with eclipse...

git keeps trying to add the following files

modified:   EJB/.classpath
modified:   WAR/.classpath

but if you look in my .gitignore it looks like this..

Flex/src/generated/
work/
logs/
build/
EJB/classes/
WAR/WebRoot/WEB-INF/classes/
.classpath
EJB/.classpath
com.genuitec.eclipse.persistence.jpa.prefs
WAR/.classpath
 WAR/.classpath
 EJB/.classpath

what else can I do or try?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 762

Answers (1)

Anshul Goyal
Anshul Goyal

Reputation: 76847

I think you have added those .classpath files to git earlier, and git is already tracking them, so adding them to .gitignore is not sufficient.

You need to stop tracking it in your repo. Try

git rm -r --cached EJB/.classpath WAR/.classpath
git commit -m "untracking .classpath files"

And after this, gitignore will ignore the changes to them.

Upvotes: 5

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