how to ignore a directory and its sub-directories in gitignore

Question

I want to ignore public folder and its inside folders and file in git

public/app
public/dist/file.html
public/dist/bower_components/
public/dist/fonts/
public/dist/scripts/

i want to ignore all of them and their inside files i followed this link Add newly created specific folder to .gitignore in Git

I am doing it like this in .gitignore file

public/app/*
public/dist//*
public/dist/bower_components/*
public/dist/fonts/*
public/dist/scripts/

but its not working ,i can stil see these files on git status

please share the output of `git status`, also mention whether you have tried `git rm` as suggested in the link in your post — Imran Ali, Aug 09 '17 at 11:18

phd · Answer 1 · 2017-08-09T15:33:35.230

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Ignore /public/ (leading and trailing slashes, no asterisk).

edited Aug 09 '17 at 15:33

answered Aug 09 '17 at 13:46

phd

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Or, better yet, `/public/`, to avoid unintentionally also ignoring `some/path/to/public/`... – twalberg Aug 09 '17 at 15:32
Agree. Updated. Tnx. – phd Aug 09 '17 at 15:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 09 '17 at 11:24

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First verify git status if you have already add this folders. If you was add, try to remove them git rm -r --cached directory.

Next put only public/* in .gitignore to ignore all file in public's folder.

answered Aug 09 '17 at 11:24

Tisp

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