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Louis W
Louis W

Reputation: 3262

.gitignore issues, doesn't ignore file

My .gitignore contains the following:

deploy/media/customoptions/options/*/*/70x/*
deploy/media/customoptions/options/*/*/200x/*
deploy/media/customoptions/options/*/*/*/*

I realize this is a bit more then it really needs, but I've been testing different patterns to try to get it working.

When I run an add command:

git add deploy/media/customoptions/ --verbose --dry-run

One of the files it's matching I would like to be ignored. Why is this being added? Based on the path, it should match true above.

deploy/media/customoptions/options/998/4325/200x/200-ntlrope.jpg

I have tried deleting the entire .git directory and git initing it again to start from a blank slate, and still adds that file.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 146

Answers (3)

siegi
siegi

Reputation: 5996

As the answers already given describe that it should work, here are two ideas on what could have gone wrong:

  1. Git ignores only new files. If you already had the file deploy/media/customoptions/options/998/4325/200x/200-ntlrope.jpg in your repository, git add will happily stage the changes of this file to the index. Either you remove the file from the repository (git rm --staged <filename>) or you tell Git to never check for modifications of this file (git update-index --assume-unchanged <filename>).
  2. Where did you put your .gitignore? Paths are always relative to the directory of this file. So you may put the file in the directory deploy/media/customoptions/ and add options/ to it to ignore the directory deploy/media/customoptions/options and all its content. Or you may put it in the root of your repository with the full path deploy/media/customoptions/options/.

Upvotes: 0

ComputerLocus
ComputerLocus

Reputation: 3628

Works with my test using what I mentioned in my comments:

➜  ~ mkdir test
➜  ~ cd test
➜ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jhvisser/test/.git/
➜  mkdir deploy/media/customoptions/options/998/4325/200x/ -p
➜  echo "test" > deploy/media/customoptions/options/998/4325/200x/200-ntlrope.jpg
➜  git status
On branch master

Initial commit

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

        deploy/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
➜  git add deploy/media/customoptions/ --verbose --dry-run
add 'deploy/media/customoptions/options/998/4325/200x/200-ntlrope.jpg'
➜  echo "deploy/media/customoptions/options/*" > .gitignore
➜  cat .gitignore
deploy/media/customoptions/options/*
➜  git status
On branch master

Initial commit

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

        .gitignore

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
➜  git add deploy/media/customoptions/ --verbose --dry-run
➜

Therefore try just deploy/media/customoptions/options/*

I also tested with deploy/media/customoptions/options/*/*/200x/* and deploy/media/customoptions/options/*/*/*/* and both of these worked. These are the ones you show in your examples. You may be doing something incorrect, so give what I showed in my test a try.

Upvotes: 1

Qix - MONICA WAS MISTREATED
Qix - MONICA WAS MISTREATED

Reputation: 15143

First of all, you shouldn't have to delete the .git directory to re-set ignored files. The following two commands should re-set everything and ignore the relevant pieces from the .gitignore:

git rm -r --cached .
git add -A

That will first "remove" everything from Git and then re-add it back, obeying .gitignore files.

As far as your patterns, it appears you're attempting to just ignore everything after

deploy/media/customoptions/options

in which case you could use the globstar pattern

deploy/media/customoptions/options/**/*

or simply just 'anything' under options/

deploy/media/customoptions/options/*

Remember that * matches directories too, and Git supports ignoring whole directories, so even the following should work

deploy/media/customoptions/options/

Upvotes: 0

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