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D. Kermott
D. Kermott

Reputation: 1673

.gitignore with Visual Studio Solutions containing multiple project folders

I have a c:\git folder where I store all my code. In this folder is a folder for each application/solution. Each application/solution can have many projects.

Example folder structure:

c:\git\abc\abc-da\
c:\git\abc\abc-WebUI\
c:\git\abc\abc-WinService\
c:\git\abc\abc-Tester\
c:\git\abc\abc-UnitTest\

My question is this:
If I put my VisualStudio.gitIgnore file in the c:\git\abc\ folder (named .gitignore obviously) then would it apply to all subfolders? or do I have to copy the .gitignore to each project folder?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2564

Answers (1)

syntaqx
syntaqx

Reputation: 2866

.gitignore applies to a project from the root, and matches children via the glob search. Additionally, any .gitignore files in children directories from the root of a project, will apply the same. This stops once you hit a .git directory (the indicator for the start of a repo).

Separately from that, you can set a global .gitignore file that Git will apply to all projects under a particular git installation (or, installations referencing that file).

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

Usually this goes in your home folder as ~/.gitignore or ~/.gitignore_global and is used to ignore files related to your personal setup (ie, you use IntelliJ? Ignore .idea, don't ignore it on every project).

Beyond that, I do not believe Git has additional builtin functionality for .gitignore.

Fantastic references:

Upvotes: 2

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