.gitignore not ignoring files

Question

Here is my .gitignore file:

# See https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files for more about ignoring files.
#
# If you find yourself ignoring temporary files generated by your text editor
# or operating system, you probably want to add a global ignore instead:
#   git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore_global'

# Ignore bundler config.
/.bundle

# Ignore the default SQLite database.
/db/*.sqlite3
/db/*.sqlite3-journal

# Ignore all logfiles and tempfiles.
/log/*
!/log/.keep
/tmp

# Ignore application configuration
/config/application.yml
/config/application.yml.bak
*.bak

Now, my repository is at https://github.com/rmohan80/learn-rails

Why would my latest commit -- "add configuration for email" add Readme.rdoc.bak but ignore .gitignore.bak

Any clues?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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The star character does do match files beginning with a period. You can add .*.bak to ignore them in your case or you can change the glob option in your shell :

# capture dot file
shopt -s dotglob

# do git stuff here

# stop capturing dot file
shopt -u dotglob

A similar problem solved here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/19365350

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Dec 12 '15 at 11:51

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I've updated the question to make it more clear. However, the problem isn't with the shell intrepretation - a ls *.bak shows all the files with .bak correctly - i.e. 4 files - including .gitignore.bak and Readme.rdoc.bak – zooter Dec 12 '15 at 11:56
@zooter, git uses slightly different rules. For example the leading / does not mean you are excluding a file somewhere in the root-path of your filesystem. Just give Slagt's first suggestion a try. Modify one of the newly excluded files and run a "git status" to see that nothing gets reported as modified. – benjamin Dec 12 '15 at 12:51
Not seem to be working - I added .*.bak and output C:\Users\ram\ruby\learn-rails [master +3 ~2 -0 !]> git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: .gitignore modified: README.md.bak Untracked files: (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) README.md.bak.bak config/environments/development.rb.bak config/secrets.yml.bak – zooter Dec 12 '15 at 12:58

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '15 at 14:11

You have to checkout the HEAD, so that your repository looks unmodified. Then run the following:

$ echo '*.*.bak' >> .gitignore

To exclude files that are formatted like README.md.bak.

And run

$ echo '**/*.bak' >> .gitignore

to exclude files that are formatted like README.bak anywhere in the tree below the current directory.

Having .bak.bak files is something you don't want.

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