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Tom Hale
Tom Hale

Reputation: 46775

Repository files showing in `git status`

I'm versioning my $HOME with git, but with an differently-named repository directory so that my prompt doesn't always show git information.

I have setup an alias for when I want to use git on my $HOME:

alias gith='git --git-dir=/home/ravi/.githome --work-tree=/home/ravi'

The repository directory .githome itself shouldn't be showing up in a gith status, but it is:

~$ git --git-dir=/home/ravi/.githome --work-tree=/home/ravi status -s
 M .dotfiles
 M .githome/COMMIT_EDITMSG
 M .githome/index
 M .githome/index.lock
 M .githome/logs/HEAD
 M .githome/logs/refs/heads/master
 M .githome/refs/heads/master
 M .local/share/fzf
 M bin
 M lib
 M prj/sample_app

I'm trying to ignore the directory .githome as follows: 

~$ grep .githome .gitignore
/.githome/
~$ cat .githome/.gitignore 
*

Questions:

  1. Why aren't my two exclude files working?
  2. Why do I need to explictly exclude the repository directory anyway?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 142

Answers (2)

Tom Hale
Tom Hale

Reputation: 46775

It turned out that .githome had been already added in a previous commit.

Based on @Tim's comment and @KingAlandyDy's answer, I did the following:

gith rm -r --cached .githome/

Upvotes: 1

kninjaboi
kninjaboi

Reputation: 201

Make sure that you haven't committed githome already because gitignore cannot delete files from a repository. 

git rm -rf --cached .
git add .

Run this. It will make your repository work again by clearing everything and pulling it with respect to your gitignore file.

Upvotes: 3

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