Git - Ignore certain files contained in specific folders

Question

I\'m using msysgit and have a project tree that contains many bin/ folders in the tree. Using the .gitignore file in the root of the project I need to ignore all .dll files

Answer 1

Update August 2016 (seven years later, Git 2.9.3/ Git 2.10)

**/bin/*.dll

That does work for any depth.

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Original answer (2009, Git 1.6)

Did you try:

**/bin/*.dll

It does work with my msysgit1.6.3 (with a .gitignore file at the root directory of the Git workspace).

Actually the above would only ignore 'x/bin/z.dll', not 'x/y/bin/z.dll'.

Another syntax could be:

**/*/bin/*.dll

But that would only get depth 3, not depth 2!

So if you do not have too many place where *.dll need to be ignored, the simplest solution would still be a local .gitignore file in those 'bin' directories...

Or a collection of directive to cover the main first depths:

bin/*.dll
**/bin/*.dll
**/*/bin/*.dll
**/**/*/bin/*.dll

and so on, all in one .gitignore file.