Why gitignore is not workiing on Nextjs project?

Question

I run yarn dev or npm run dev for my porject

  "scripts": {
    "dev": "next dev",
    "build": "next build",
    "start": "next start",
    "lint": "next lint"
  },

My git will generate a lots of Uncommitted changes like .next/build-manifest.json

I check .gitignore file includes

# next.js
/.next/
/out/

Why I still get the issue ?

You cannot ignore changes to already-tracked files; only untracked files can be ignored. — knittl, Aug 29 '23 at 08:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '23 at 08:52

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I'm assuming you added /.next/ to .gitignore afterwards, so stuff that already got in GIT won't be ignored by default, only new files added to those directories.

You also need to do git rm --cached -r .next/ which will recursively remove the files in that directory from the cache. They should appear as untracked afterwards, and you must commit the changes

answered Aug 29 '23 at 08:52

Raul Rene

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Yes, the reason is correct and the solution is working. Thanks for your help. – Morton Aug 29 '23 at 09:03

Why gitignore is not workiing on Nextjs project?

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