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Rilcon42
Rilcon42

Reputation: 9763

git GUI ignores .gitignore file?

I am creating my first .gitignore file. It looks like this:

/3212703ED955F10C7534BE8497B221F4/tester/history/*
/3212703ED955F10C7534BE8497B221F4/tester/logs/*
/3212703ED955F10C7534BE8497B221F4/history/**
*.hst
*.fxt
/3212703ED955F10C7534BE8497B221F4/MQL4/Logs/*
/3212703ED955F10C7534BE8497B221F4/logs/*

/*.Rhistory
/*.RData

However when I open the GIT gui and click "Stage Changed" I get a bunch of .hst files staged. What am I missing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1465

Answers (2)

Konstantin Labun
Konstantin Labun

Reputation: 3918

Any git GUI not more than interface over primitive CLI commands. It's possible that some of files you try to ignore are already tracking by git, so .gitignore doesn't apply to them. Try to remove them from git index:

git rm -r --cached . 
git add .
git commit -am "Drop ignored files"

Upvotes: 4

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 1667

If the files were already stored in the repository then the ignore for will not ignore them. But it should ignore new files of that type.

Upvotes: 2

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