development.log is not affected by ignore

Question

Part of my .gitignore looks like below:

## Ignore logs
/log/
/log/development.log

Yet development.log is always in modified files when commiting.

I tried to remove --cached and remove file altogether. No luck. Also I have recently pushed it to remote (by mistake).

Any idea how to solve that bugger once and for all?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '17 at 22:05

2

Try

log/*

(without leading slash)

And probably

git rm --cached log/development.log

to remove the file from index. You may also check this question How to make Git "forget" about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore? to remove accidentally commited log file.

answered Aug 01 '17 at 22:05

lightalloy

1

I have used `git update-index --assume-unchanged ` mentioned in the thread that you have linked. For now looks like the problem is gone. Thanks. – Aug 02 '17 at 19:39

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