Ignore file in sub directory?

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I've tried a lot of patterns, but non of them works, and the file still synced with the remote server (GitHub): I have a text file inside the project folder:

ProjFolder
   secret.txt
.gitignore

I want to ignore the file secret.txt. I tried:

./secret.txt
/secret.txt
*/secret.txt

and a lot more that I can't remember. Is it possible to ignore file that's not in the same .gitignore directory?!

networm · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-16T03:40:41.227

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If you want to ignore it from now on, you should use

git rm --cached project/secret.txt
cat project/secret.txt >> .gitignore
git commit -a -m "Remove secret.txt"

Ignore rule will be effective only after you removed that file.

If you want to remove it from all history, you should search usage of git filter-branch and rewrite all history to remove this file.

edited Sep 16 '18 at 03:40

answered Sep 15 '18 at 14:39

networm

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`git rm project/secret.txt` is a rather harsh advice. :-( – phd Sep 15 '18 at 15:51
@phd Sorry, I have add `--cached` to rm – networm Sep 16 '18 at 03:41
@phd why please? I'd like to know – mshwf Sep 16 '18 at 20:57
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`git rm` removes the file from disk and I'm sure you want to keep it in the directory but not in the repository. `git rm --cached` removes the file from repository but not from disk. – phd Sep 16 '18 at 22:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '18 at 14:33

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You need to specify it's path in your .gitignore file:

ProjFolder/secret.txt

answered Sep 15 '18 at 14:33

Mureinik

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I tried this also, didn't work – mshwf Sep 15 '18 at 14:36

Ignore file in sub directory?

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