How to use gitignore with asterisks?

Asked Apr 07 '19 at 12:49

Active Apr 07 '19 at 12:58

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I have a directory for IntelliJ I would like to leave out of my repo (the 'out' folder).

I tried to add this to my git ignore file:

*/out/*

I tried all sorts of variants of this. None of them work without filling out the entire exact path to the directory. So this is working:

someDir/AnotherDir/AnotherAnotherDir/out/

How do I use gitignore with asterisks?

edited Apr 07 '19 at 12:58

abunickabhi

asked Apr 07 '19 at 12:49

Birdman

just fix the path issue by opening the terminal in that folder and adding the path. – abunickabhi Apr 07 '19 at 12:54
Turns out not using asterisks at all worked best for my case, as described in the answer. – Birdman Apr 07 '19 at 12:58

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