.gitignore not ignoring subdirectory, tried it all

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I have tried putting all kinds of crazyness into the gitignore file, I would like to ignore all files in the public/dist folder

public/dist/ public/ */public/dist/ **/public/dist

and all other kinda of variations.

this is what I see when I run git status, I want to ignore the bundle.js

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 15 '17 at 06:21

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After you've added the new .gitignore to your working index, don't forget to remove any files that you don't want to track via git rm --cached. In your case, you'd want to use git rm --cached public/dist/bundle.js to stop tracking that file.

answered Apr 15 '17 at 06:21

Makoto

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ah finally! after spending 2 hours trying to figure out why I couldn't remove my tracked files, finally got it! thank you! – Sean Malter Apr 15 '17 at 22:37
Thanks, finally! – Steffi Jan 07 '18 at 15:23

.gitignore not ignoring subdirectory, tried it all

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