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Razor
Razor

Reputation: 17498

Problem with ignoring a directory in git

I've seen many posts on SO about this but none of the solutions I've tried work.

I have a directory structure as follows

MySite\Bin
MySite\Obj
MySite\Important

My .gitignore file which is at the root is (and yes I've tried removing the * also)

MySite\bin\*
MySite\obj\*

Executing the command git status shows this

#       modified:   .gitignore
#       modified:   SomeOtherFile.fle
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#       MySite/bin/
#       MySite/obj/

I've tried executing the following commands

git rm -r MySite\bin
git rm -r --cached MySite\bin

git rm MySite\bin\fileToIgnore.dll
git rm --cached MySite\bin\fileToIgnore.dll

And I keep getting this error fatal: pathspec 'MySite/bin' did not match any files

When executing git add . the files in MySite\Bin and MySite\obj are added to the staging items. Why?

I'm also using the windows version of git (mysysgit).

Many thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 306

Answers (2)

Mohamed Mansour
Mohamed Mansour

Reputation: 40159

You have your slashes in the wrong order.

MySite/bin
MySite/obj

According to the docs of gitignore it is a pattern. And Git path pattern always follows unix path names with forward slashes.

Do that and it should work.

Upvotes: 3

Andrew T Finnell
Andrew T Finnell

Reputation: 13628

Not to point out the obvious, but you have Bin and bin. (Note case). I believe git is case sensitive no matter the platform.

Upvotes: 2

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