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I am using GIT with a new ASP.NET MVC project. I have a line in my gitignore file to ignore dlls *.dll I would like to add something along the lines of the following to include (i.e. do not ignore) DLLs in my NUGET packages folder !/packages/*.dll The problem I'm encountering is that not all nuget packages are created equally and, depending on the package in question, DLLs may be nested an arbitrary number of levels in the path hierarchy. It seems that I simply need a recursive solution along the lines of: !/packages/**/*.dll !/packages/**/* I have not yet found a solution that will work via

I'm trying to .gitignore emacs temporary/autosave files. I'm using... \.\#.* in my .gitignore. But git add -A run in a subfolder is still giving me: # new file: .#make_collections.py # new file: .#norm_collections.py # new file: make_collections.py # new file: norm_collections.py even though \.\#.* is clearly getting the right file names and not the wrong ones when I test it with a regex tester . You can also instruct emacs to save the autosave files in a different directory altogether by setting the variable auto-save-file-name-transforms , I have this in my init file (setq auto-save-file

Closed . This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post . so what I'm suggesting in my job, is to put db/schema.rb into .gitignore file, so we don't have (time to time) merging problems. There are some concerns that if something terrible happen (meteor fall from the sky right on the DB server and simultaneously all the db/migrete files are corrupt) we could loose the schema, and we will have to use rake db:purge (to reuse the schema.rb). I