Git won't ignore files

Question

I have some log files that I want Git to ignore. They are all in:

/Lead Services/logs/

In the .getignore file, I have tried entering all of these:

/Lead Services/logs
/Lead Services/logs/
/Lead Services/logs/*
/Lead Services/logs/**

I've even tried to enter specific files:

/Lead Services/logs/LeadAcceptance-LocalDev.txt

No matter what I try, these files keep showing up in Team Explorer under "Changes". What am I doing wrong?

Possible duplicate of [Stop tracking and ignore changes to a file in Git](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/936249/stop-tracking-and-ignore-changes-to-a-file-in-git) — 1615903, Jan 29 '16 at 05:52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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You can use git rm to exclude file from tracking permanently. In your local repository, do

git rm -r --cached logs/*

then

git add .
git commit -m "Excluded logs from tracking"
git push

From now on, the git won't track the logs folder, any more. Also, you may refer to this question.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

Community

answered Jan 28 '16 at 20:08

Farhad

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