Cannot ignore idea workspace xml - keeps popping up

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Using PHPStorm  I am trying to ignore the workspace xml which pops up every-time I try to make a git commit   My  gitignore looks like     idea   idea workspace xml   Because at a point the file was committed  I ve also executed   git rm --cached  idea workspace xml and then committed the removal  pushed to a bare repo   But the file keeps popping up later when I do changes in the project   Any ideas on what I am missing

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I was facing the same issue  and it drove me up the wall  The issue ended up to be that the  idea folder was ALREADY commited into the repo previously  and so they were being tracked by git regardless of whether you ignored them or not  I would recommend the following  after closing RubyMine IntelliJ or whatever IDE you are using   mv  idea     idea backup rm  idea   in case you forgot to close your IDE git rm -r  idea  git commit -m  Remove  idea from repo  mv     idea backup  idea   After than make sure to ignore  idea in your  gitignore  Although it is sufficient to ignore it in the repository s  gitignore  I would suggest that you ignore your IDE s dotfiles globally    Otherwise you will have to add it to every  gitgnore for every project you work on  Also  if you collaborate with other people  then its best practice not to pollute the project s  gitignore with private configuation that are not specific to the source-code of the project

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In the same dir where you see the file appear do     rm  idea workspace xml git rm -f  idea workspace xml  as suggested by chris vdp  vi  gitignore i  to edit   add  idea workspace xml in one of the lines  Esc   wq   You should be good now

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If you have multiple projects in your git repo   idea workspace xml will not match to any files   Instead  do the following     git rm -f     idea workspace xml  And make your  gitignore look something like this     User-specific stuff      idea workspace xml     idea tasks xml     idea dictionaries     idea vcs xml     idea jsLibraryMappings xml    Sensitive or high-churn files      idea dataSources ids     idea dataSources xml     idea dataSources local xml     idea sqlDataSources xml     idea dynamic xml     idea uiDesigner xml     File-based project format    iws    IntelliJ  out

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The way i did in Android Studio which is also based on IntelliJ was like this  In commit dialog  I reverted the change for workspace xml  then it was moved to unversioned file  After that I deleted this from commit dialog  Now it won t appear in the changelist  Note that my gitignore was already including  idea workspace xml

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Ignore the files ending with  iws  and the workspace xml and tasks xml files in your  gitignore Reference

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Since in my case I was performing a first commit of a project  simply deleting  git and  idea folders and then reinitializing git using git init helped to solve a problem  Now I don t have  idea at all

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I had this problem just now  I had to do git rm -f  idea workspace xml now it seems to be gone  I also had to put it into  gitignore

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Same problem for me with PHPStorm  Finally I solved doing the following    Remove  idea  directory Move  gitignore to the same level will be the new generated  idea  Write the files you need to be ignored  and  idea  too  To be sure it will be ignored I put the following     idea   idea  idea      I don t know why works this way  maybe  gitignore need to be at the same level of  idea to can be ignored this directory

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To remove  idea  completely from the git without affecting your IDE config you could just do   git rm -r --cached   idea   echo  idea  gt  gt   gitignore git commit -am  removed  idea  directory

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I had to    remove the file from git push the commit to all remotes make sure all other committers updated from remote    Commands  git rm -f  idea workspace xml git remote   xargs -L1 git push --all   Other committers should run  git pull

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Just tell git to not assume it is changed never matter what   git update-index --assume-unchanged src file to ignore   yes  you can remove the files from the git repository  But if your team all use the same IDE or you are by yourself  you probably don t want to do that  For yourself  you want to have an ok starting point to resume working  for your teammates as well

[git] Cannot ignore .idea/workspace.xml - keeps popping up

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