Anyway to tell git not to take a whole folder?

Question

I am working on a Flex project in git and I am trying to find a why for git to know checking the generated files from flex.

I want everything in

Flex/src

checked in to git but I dont want

Flex/src/generated/

Can I do this in git?

Please see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/343646/ignoring-directories-in-git-repos-on-windows — David Parker, Oct 29 '13 at 18:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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Use a .gitignore file. You can add a .gitignore file to the root of your repository, containing this single line of text:

Git will then ignore all files in /Flex/src/generated directory. Git doesn't really differentiate between folders and files.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Oct 29 '13 at 18:17

kaliatech

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