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Stav Alfi
Stav Alfi

Reputation: 13923

How to start tracking previously ignored file?

My .gitignore contains dist folder.

I have a file: dist/monorepo-docker-build-helper.js which I need to track from now on (it's auto generated from a build-process).

.gitignore file now:

dist
!dist/monorepo-docker-build-helper.js

When running git status, dist/monorepo-docker-build-helper.js is never listed, even after it was changed.

I looked at other answers: git add dist/monorepo-docker-build-helper.js -f helps but when there is a new change, git status doesn't show it.

What can I do to permanently add dist/monorepo-docker-build-helper.js to git?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 164

Answers (2)

Pedro
Pedro

Reputation: 169

I believe in this case you have to exclude dist/* in the first rule, otherwise for Git the dist folder does not exist.

Upvotes: 1

SimplyComple0x78
SimplyComple0x78

Reputation: 188

In your case, you need to ignore not the dist folder itself, but everything in it (dist/*). This way the exclude afterwards will work as stated in this post.

You should really rethink why you want to commit generated files in the first place, because it's a bad practice to do so.

Upvotes: 1

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