How could I ignore bin and obj folders from git repository?

Question

I want to ignore bin and obj folders from my git repository. As I\'ve found out, there is no easy way to do this in .gitignore. So, are there any other way? Using clean solu

Answer 1

I'm not sure why this doesn't work for you. In case it helps, here's a typical .gitignore file from one of my Visual Studio/git projects:

*.suo
*.user
_ReSharper.*
bin
obj
packages

Answer 2

If you want to ignore bin and obj in ALL your projects then you can use (from gitignore man page)

Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration variable core.excludesfile.

core.excludesfile can be set in a config file which is ~/.gitconfig in Unix - I don't know where it is under Windows

Answer 3

If you have committed the bin and obj folders previously, adding them to .gitignore will not automatically delete them. You need to commit deleting these folders with for example git rm -rf obj or git rm -rf yourProject/obj then commit the deletion

Answer 4

• Locate the bin and obj folders in Windows Explorer
• Right click TortoiseGit > Delete and add to ignore list > bin
• Right click TortoiseGit > Delete and add to ignore list > obj

Answer 5

simply making an entry in gitignore may not ignore files, you may need to commit it. I used the following method and worked for me

git rm -r --cached .

git add .

then

git commit -am "Remove ignored files"

However, this ignores my scripts folder which I included later into the repository.

Answer 6

In my case, bin and obj folders were nested under Project folder from the root .gitignore file, so I had to add it like below:

[PROJECT_FOLDER_NAME]/bin
[PROJECT_FOLDER_NAME]/obj

Replace PROJECT_FOLDER_NAME with your project folder name