GitHub ignorefiles

Question

I was using GitHub for more than a year, but right now I cannot handle ignoring files.

I’m trying to ignore files that are generated by my IDE, and also ignore .pyc files. But they keep appearing in my changes. I already tried to put:

experience/.idea
experience/.idea/*

Take a look at this screenshot:

Possible duplicate of [Ignore files that have already been committed to a Git repository](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139762/ignore-files-that-have-already-been-committed-to-a-git-repository) — coagmano, Oct 19 '15 at 00:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 10 '15 at 05:18

There are two parts to this:

Be sure that you're using the right directory matching scheme, since you want to just block the directory. For that, you want to change experience/.idea/** to just experience/.idea/.
Be sure that Git isn't tracking any of those files anymore by removing them from the stage via git rm --cached <paths-to-ignore>.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '15 at 05:19

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If a file is already under version control, adding it to the .gitignore won't remove it from the index.

You need to remove it yourself using git rm --cached <files>

answered Oct 10 '15 at 05:19

coagmano

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