.gitignore not ignoring .idea path

Question

What am I missing that needs to be done in order to get git to ignore my .idea/ path?

ctote@ubuntu:~/dev/1$ git status
On branch master         


        

Answer 1

For those of you getting fatal: pathspec '.idea' did not match any files:

You just have to include the full path to the .idea folder.

So first, do a git status, which should show you the path to .idea given where you currently are.

Then, include the path in the command w0lf suggested: git rm --cached -r example/path/to/.idea