.gitignore and Visual Studio project: Ignore bin/Debug directory but not bin/Release directory

Question

I have a C# Visual Studio project in a git repository. I want to ignore the contents bin/Debug directory but not the contents of the bin/Release\' dire

Answer 1

Running the following command worked for me (thanks to "orourkedd"):

git rm -r . --cached

I manually added the .gitignore file but it wasn't taken into consideration until I ran this command.

I then had to commit again and all good to go now. /bin and /obj folders are properly excluded now.