Rubymine: How to make Git ignore .idea files created by Rubymine

Question

I use Rubymine for Rails projects. Very often, Rubymine makes changes in .idea/* files that I don\'t care about. But it keeps preventing me from checking out ne

Answer 1

I suggest reading the git man page to fully understand how ignore work, and in the future you'll thank me ;)

Relevant to your problem:

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.