gitignore

I committed and pushed some directory to github. After that, I altered the .gitignore file adding a directory that should be ignored. Everything works fine, but the (now ignored) directory stays on github. How do I delete that directory from github and the repository history? Mark Longair The rules in your .gitignore file only apply to untracked files. Since the files under that directory were already committed in your repository, you have to unstage them, create a commit, and push that to GitHub: git rm -r --cached some-directory git commit -m 'Remove the now ignored directory "some-directory

Is there a way to ignore all files of a type in a directory? ** is apparently meaningless to git, so this doesn't work: /public/static/**/*.js The idea is to match arbitrary nested folders. Never tried it, but git help ignore suggests that if you put a .gitignore with *.js in /public/static , it will do what you want. Note: make sure to also check out Joeys' answer below: if you want to ignore files in a specific subdirectory, then a local .gitignore is the right solution (locality is good). However if you need the same pattern to apply to your whole repo, then the ** solution is better.

I'm trying to solve a gitignore problem on a large directory structure, but to simplify my question I have reduced it to the following. I have the following directory structure of two files (foo, bar) in a brand new git repository (no commits so far): a/b/c/foo a/b/c/bar Obviously, a 'git status -u' shows: # Untracked files: ... # a/b/c/bar # a/b/c/foo What I want to do is create a .gitignore file that ignores everything inside a/b/c but does not ignore the file 'foo'. If I create a .gitignore thus: c/ Then a 'git status -u' shows both foo and bar as ignored: # Untracked files: ... #

This question already has an answer here: Can git ignore a specific line? 8 answers .gitignore can ignore whole files, but is there a way to ignore specific lines of code while coding? I frequently and repeatedly add the same debug lines in a project, only to have to remember to remove them before committing. I'd like to just keep the lines in the code and have git disregard them. Kache This is how you can kind of do it with git filters : Create/Open gitattributes file: <project root>/.gitattributes (will be committed into repo) OR <project root>/.git/info/attributes (won't be committed into