Git ignore is not ignoring folder

Question

i have the following .ignore file:

user_resources/*

With the project looking like this:

However when i either delete or add a file to the folder it still pushes the changes of the folder.

I have done git rm --cached -r user_resources/

But sadly it still does not work :S

What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

i have the following .ignore file:

It should be .gitignore

http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore