gitignore

I have the following directory tree: > #pwd is the repo > tree -a . ├── .git │ |..... ├── .gitignore ├── README.md ├── f1.html ├── f2.html ... and some more html ├── images │ └── river.jpg > I also have the following in my .gitignore : > cat .gitignore * !*.html !images/*.* > I would like all files in the images directory to be included in the repo. But that is not happening. I got it to work using the following in gitignore: * !*.html !images* !*.jp*g What is happening here? Is there a foolproof way to test gitignore. I checked the documentation . Here is the point it don't understand (this

I usually do this: git init git add . git commit . And then I realize that it's about to add my nbproject directory, which I want excluded/ignored. Sometimes, I even check in this directory. Had I added it to .git/info/exclude before running git add., everything works fine (it's excluded). So then I modify .git/info/exclude and then it's too late. git no longer respects changes to .git/info/exclude. So the questions are: How can I get git to take up the changes in the exclude file in the checkin? (I tried running git add . again, which doesn't help) Let's say I check in a directory (or file)

Possible Duplicate: Intellij Idea 9/10, what folders to check into (or not check into) source control? I started using WebStorm for web development and am not sure what to add and what to exclude from our Git repository. Clearly some files inside the .idea folder are meant to be version controlled like the external library settings ( jsLibraryMappings.xml ) but others will probably change very often and are developer-specific (e.g., workspace.xml ). What is the recommended .gitignore pattern for WebStorm / IntelliJ IDEA? P.S. There are already questions about this but usually focus only on

I have an existing Visual Studio project in my repository. I recently added a .gitignore file under my project and I assume that tells Git to ignore the files listed in the file. My problem is that all those files are already being tracked and as far as I know Git will not ignore a file that was already tracked before a rule was added to this file to ignore it. It was suggested to use: git rm --cached and manually un-track them but that's going to take me forever to go through them one by one. I thought about deleting the repository and recreating it again but this time with .gitignore file

I am currently working with a subversion repository but I am using git to work locally on my machine. It makes work much easier, but it also makes some of the bad behavior going on in the subversion repo quite glaring and that creates problems for me. There is a somewhat complex local build process after pulling down the code and it creates (and unfortunately modifies) a number of files. Obviously these changes are not meant to be committed back to the repository. Unfortunately the build process is actually modifying some tracked files (yes, most likely because someone mistakenly committed