gitignore

I have a git repository hosted on Github. After committing many files, I am realizing that I need to create .gitignore and exclude .exe , .obj files. However, will it automatically remove these committed files from the repository? Is there any way to force that? No you cannot force a file that is already committed in the repo to be removed just because it is added to the .gitignore You have to git rm --cached to remove the files that you don't want in the repo. ( --cached since you probably want to keep the local copy but remove from the repo. ) So if you want to remove all the exe's from your

I need to add some rules to my .gitignore file. However, I can't find it in my project folder. Isn't it created automatically by Xcode? If not, what command allows me to create one? ajcw If you're using Windows it will not let you create a file without a filename in Windows Explorer. It will give you the error " You must type a file name " if you try to rename a text file as .gitignore To get around this I used the following steps Create the text file gitignore.txt Open it in a text editor and add your rules, then save and close Hold SHIFT, right click the folder you're in, then select Open

I just did a git init on the root of my new project. Then I created a .gitignore file. Now, when I type git status , .gitignore file appears in the list of untracked files. Why is that? August Lilleaas The .gitignore file should be in your repository, so it should indeed be added and committed in, as git status suggests. It has to be a part of the repository tree, so that changes to it can be merged and so on. So, add it to your repository, it should not be gitignored. If you really want you can add .gitignore to the .gitignore file if you don't want it to be committed. However, in that case

I followed the basic getting started instructions for node.js on Heroku here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/nodejs These instruction don't tell you to create a .gitignore node_modules, and therefore imply that node_modules should be checked in to git. When I include node_modules in git my getting started application ran correctly. When I followed the more advanced example at: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/realtime-polyglot-app-node-ruby-mongodb-socketio https://github.com/mongolab/tractorpush-server (source) It instructed me to add node_modules to .gitignore. So I removed

I want to ignore all files in my repository except those that occur in the bin subdirectory. I tried adding the following to my .gitignore : * !bin/* This does not have the desired effect, however: I created a new file inside of bin/ , but doing git status still shows nothing to commit (working directory clean) . Any suggestions? This ignores root files & root directories, then un-ignores the root bin directory: /* /*/ !/bin/ This way you get all of the bin directory, including subdirectories and their files. Here how to ignore everything exept one directory " MY_SUPER_DUPER_TEMPLATE_directory