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Let's say I have ignored a directory, but I want to unignore specific subdirectories therein. So I have the setup: /uploads/ /uploads/rubbish/ /uploads/rubbish/stuff/KEEP_ME/ /uploads/foo/ /uploads/foo/bar/lose/ And I want to ignore everything but the KEEP_ME directory. I would hope the ignore would look something like: /uploads/* !/uploads/rubbish/stuff/KEEP_ME/ But that's not working, and neither are several permutations on the same theme. One that does work is /uploads/**/**/**/ !/uploads/rubbish/stuff/KEEP_ME/ But that feels a little restrictive and verbose? Art Shayderov According to

I've learned how to exclude an entire directory in git (add a line bin/ to .gitignore ). And I've learned how to ignore files "after the fact" (i.e. after they have been added to git): git rm --cached <filename> How do I ignore an entire directory (e.g. bin/ ) after it has been added to a Git repo? I tried git rm --cached bin/ but all I received was the error: fatal: pathspec 'bin/' did not match any files When I tried (at the root directory, where .git exists) git rm --cached MyProj/bin/ the error is different: fatal: not removing 'MyProj/bin/' recursively without -r What does this mean and

I have a remote repo in which I want to commit certain files (the compiled files to deploy them on a cloud computing platform), but I don't want to deploy them on github... is there some way to have to different .gitignore files, one for each remote? This doesn't really make sense in git's model. Commits contain sets of files; all .gitignore files do is tell the UI not to automatically add files matching certain patterns. What this would effectively mean is to have parallel sets of commits that are almost the same, but containing only a subset of the files. It'd be possible to do this with a

I have seen similar questions ( 1 , 2 and 3 ), but I don't get a proper solution from them. I need to ignore all files under a particular folder except for a specific file type. The folder is a subdirectory for the root path. Let me name the folder Resources . Since I don't want to complicate things, let me ignore files under all folders named Resources wherever it is. This is the most common solution (in all the duplicate questions) # Ignore everything * # Don't ignore directories, so we can recurse into them !*/ # Don't ignore .gitignore !.gitignore # Now exclude our type !*.foo The problem

I recently reorganized my dotfiles to live inside a Git repository at ~/Dropbox/dotfiles and I'm using pathogen to bundle all Vim addons inside ~/Dropbox/dotfiles/home/.vim/bundle . These addons were added as Git submodules. Now the problem is, when I run Vim, it automatically generates the documentation for all addons and puts them inside each submodule directory. This adds untracked content to the submodules, which I'd like to avoid. ruby-1.8.7-p330@gs ~/Dropbox/dotfiles ‹master*› $ git st # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be

I am a bit confused about the pros and cons of using .git/info/exclude and .gitignore to exclude files. Both of them are at the level of the repository/project, so how do they differ and when should we use .git/info/exclude ? mu 無 The advantage of .gitignore is that it can be checked into the repository itself, unlike .git/info/exclude . Another advantage is that you can have multiple .gitignore files, one inside each directory/subdirectory for directory specific ignore rules, unlike .git/info/exclude . So, .gitignore is available across all clones of the repository. Therefore, in large teams

Just put an Android project under git ( beanstalk ) version control via the command line ( mac terminal ). Next step is to set up exclusions. To those of you who have already been down this path: What should a typical .gitignore file look like for an android project? Project set up in Eclipse You can mix Android.gitignore : # built application files *.apk *.ap_ # files for the dex VM *.dex # Java class files *.class # generated files bin/ gen/ # Local configuration file (sdk path, etc) local.properties with Eclipse.gitignore : *.pydevproject .project .metadata bin/** tmp/** tmp/**/* *.tmp *