Git - Ignore node_modules folder everywhere

Question

I have a project containing multiple other projects :

• Main project
  • Mini project 1
  • Mini project 2

All containing <

Answer 1

Try doing something like this

**/node_modules

** is used for a recursive call in the whole project

Two consecutive asterisks ** in patterns matched against full pathname may have special meaning:

A leading ** followed by a slash means match in all directories. For example, **/foo matches file or directory foo anywhere, the same as pattern foo. **/foo/bar matches file or directory bar anywhere that is directly under directory foo.

A trailing /** matches everything inside. For example, abc/** matches all files inside directory abc, relative to the location of the .gitignore file, with infinite depth.

A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash matches zero or more directories. For example, a/\**/b matches a/b, a/x/b, a/x/y/b and so on.

Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid.

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