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michael nesterenko
michael nesterenko

Reputation: 14439

git ignore multiple matching files

I try to ignore file in a directory by relative path. E.g. I have several directories in working tree lib/file.f and I want all occurrences of this file to be ignored. I tried

lib/file.f

but this does not work.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 20025

Answers (3)

petrsyn
petrsyn

Reputation: 5116

If you want to specify all sub-folders under specific folder use /**/. To ignore all file.f files in a /src/main/ folder and sub-folders use:

/src/main/**/file.f

Upvotes: 0

unutbu
unutbu

Reputation: 879421

Place 

*/lib/file.f

in your .gitignore. This will cause git to ignore any file of the form project/<DIR>/lib/file.f, assuming .gitignore is in the project directory. To make git ignore lib/file.f two directories down, you'd also have to add 

*/*/lib/file.f

to the .gitignore, and so on.

Vastly simpler of course, would be to place

*file.f

in .gitignore to block all files named file.f, but your question seems to suggest there is at least one file by that name you wish not to ignore.

Upvotes: 21

cclaudiu
cclaudiu

Reputation: 51

also you might want to remove the file from git cache, in order to check what you just ignored:

git rm --cached lib/file.f

this is if you already added the file to git index

Upvotes: 5

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