.gitignore file in Sourcetree not working

Question

I am working on a maven project and I want to ignore the files generated and stored in the /target folder of my project (Evaluation) root folder.In the root of my git repository

Answer 1

Struggled with this for a few hours, tried a number of things including the suggestions here - to no avail... what finally worked for me was to create the .gitignore file when setting up the repo within bitbucket.org, pulled that file to my local, pasted the exact same contents of the file I was trying to create on my own, and it is finally all working now.