gitignore doesn't ignore untracked file

Question

Need to setup gitignore for upcoming project, current testing however shows it doesn't actually ignore the untracked file.

eBGTest being my git repo, the file I'm trying to ignore is eBGTest/test

eBGTest/.gitignore

/test/
.test
test
test
test
test
/test
./test
eBGTest/test
test.test

Edit (git status output): Untracked files: (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed)

    .gitignore
    test

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

It's not being tracked by git as you can see above

Possible duplicate of [How to make Git "forget" about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1274057/how-to-make-git-forget-about-a-file-that-was-tracked-but-is-now-in-gitignore) — Bucket, Apr 03 '19 at 19:37
It's not, this case it's untracked but still doesn't get ignored — Peter Lang, Apr 03 '19 at 19:40
Is `test` a file or a directory? If it's a directory, is there anything inside it? Speficially another `.git/` directory? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Apr 03 '19 at 20:04
And it's in the root directory, alongside your `.gitignore`? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Apr 03 '19 at 20:14
And your `.gitignore` is named exactly that, just `.gitignore` without any file extension? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Apr 03 '19 at 20:20
What operating system are you on? What encoding and line endings does `.gitignore` have? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Apr 03 '19 at 21:14
This sounds like the case where the `.gitignore` file's contents are encoded in UTF-16 (Windows editors do this to you). — torek, Apr 03 '19 at 23:56
So I just did some more testing, it works perfectly fine in other repos with the exact files, just not this one. — Peter Lang, Apr 04 '19 at 11:36
Please look through the answers to [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/q/11451535/354577). — ChrisGPT was on strike, Apr 04 '19 at 12:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 03 '19 at 19:51

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try to add like this

  .test #or /test/

OR see this sites Github

answered Apr 03 '19 at 19:51

Khaled Sameer

Tried .test and /test/, no change. – Peter Lang Apr 03 '19 at 19:54
If you are just testing and its new project follow this steps delete the hidden folder in you project folder ``` .git ``` then add .gitignore file and run this command ``` git init && git commit -m "initial " ``` – Khaled Sameer Apr 03 '19 at 20:03
Tried that, now nothing in tracked but the test file still appears in untracked. – Peter Lang Apr 03 '19 at 20:08

score -4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '19 at 19:49

-4

Make git add .gitignore; git commit -m 'First commit - gitignore'

For the .gitignore to ignore the files, you must first commit, and then the changes will be applied.

After this, the test file will be ignored.

answered Apr 03 '19 at 19:49

otharwa

Committed .gitignore, results are the same, test is not ignored. Untracked files: (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) test – Peter Lang Apr 03 '19 at 19:52
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This is incorrect. `.gitignore` does not need to be committed to work (though it _should_ be; local-only ignores should go into `.git/info/exclude` instead). – ChrisGPT was on strike Apr 03 '19 at 20:26

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