laravel gitIgnore doesn't ignore my folder

Question

I would like to ignore whole 'public' folder, I added this manually to my gitIgnore file, but still when I commit I can see things from this folder. How to do to file gitignore start ignore this?

My gitignore looks like this:

/vendor
/node_modules
.env
composer.lock
/public
/.idea
.phpstorm.meta.php
_ide_helper.php
npm-debug.log
package-lock.json
.gitattributes

I don't want to remove this folder, I want to stop adding this all the time when I do commit — wenus, Sep 19 '17 at 07:15
Duplicate of [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7927230/remove-directory-from-remote-repository-after-adding-them-to-gitignore) and [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139762/ignore-files-that-have-already-been-committed-to-a-git-repository). — Stefan, Sep 19 '17 at 07:16
Possible duplicate of [Ignore files that have already been committed to a Git repository](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139762/ignore-files-that-have-already-been-committed-to-a-git-repository) — phd, Sep 19 '17 at 08:44

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '17 at 07:17

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The simplest way to do it:

temporarily move out from repository the public folder.
Do commit
move it back. It will be ignored.

answered Sep 19 '17 at 07:17

arku

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score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 19 '17 at 08:05

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You can use -

git rm -r --cached <your file/directory Name>

edited Sep 19 '17 at 08:05

online Thomas

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answered Sep 19 '17 at 07:18

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directories also need `-r` for recursive – online Thomas Sep 19 '17 at 07:21

laravel gitIgnore doesn't ignore my folder

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