How to use gitignore command in git

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I m working first time on git  I have pushed my branch on github and it pushed all the library and documents into the github  Now what can I do and how can I use gitignore command to avoid the same  mistake again

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So based on what you said  these files are libraries documentation you don t want to delete but also don t want to push to github  Let say you have your project in folder your project and a doc directory  your project doc    Remove it from the project directory  without actually deleting it   git rm --cached doc    If you don t already have a  gitignore  you can make one right inside of your project folder  project  gitignore   Put doc   in the  gitignore  Stage the file to commit  git add project  gitignore Commit  git commit -m  message    Push your change to github

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git ignore is a convention in git  Setting a file by the name of  gitignore will ignore the files in that directory and deeper directories that match the patterns that the file contains  The most common use is just to have one file like this at the top level  But you can add others deeper in your directory structure to ignore even more patterns or stop ignoring them for that directory and subsequently deeper ones    Likewise  you can  unignore  certain files in a deeper structure or a specific subset  ie  you ignore   log but want to still track important log  by specifying patterns beginning with    eg     log  important log   will ignore all log files but will track files named important log  If you are tracking files you meant to ignore  delete them  add the pattern to you  gitignore file and add all the changes    delete files that should be ignored  or untrack them with    git rm --cached  lt file list or pattern gt     stage all the changes git commit git add -A    from now on your repository will not have them tracked   If you would like to clean up your history  you can    if you want to correct the last 10 commits git rebase -i --preserve-merges HEAD 10    then mark each commit with e or edit  Save the plan  Now git will replay your history stopping at each commit you marked with e  Here you delete the files you don t want  git add -A and then git rebase --continue until you are done  Your history will be clean  Make sure you tell you coworkers as you will have to force push and they will have to rebase what they didn t push yet

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on my mac i found this file  gitignore global    it was in my home directory hidden so do a ls -altr to see it     I added eclipse files i wanted git to ignore  the contents looks like this        DS Store  project  settings  classpath  metadata

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There are several ways to use gitignore git   specifying by the specific filename  for example  to ignore a file called readme txt  just need to write readme txt in  gitignore file  you can also write the name of the file extension  For example  to ignore all  txt files  write   txt  you can also ignore a whole folder  for example you want to ignore folder named test  Then just write test  in the file    just create a  gitignore file and write in whatever you want to ignore a sample gitignore file would be     NPM packages folder  node modules    Build files dist     lock files yarn lock package-lock json    Logs logs   log npm-debug log     node-waf configuration  lock-wscript    Optional npm cache directory  npm    Optional REPL history  node repl history    Jest Coverage coverage   history    You can find more on git documentation gitignore

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If you dont have a  gitignore file  first use   touch  gitignore   then this command to add lines in your gitignore file   echo  application cache   gt  gt   gitignore      Be careful about new lines

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If you don t have a  gitignore file  You can create a new one by   touch  gitignore   And you can exclude a folder by entering the below command in the  gitignore file    folderName   push this file into your git repository so that when a new person clone your project he don t have to add the same again

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There is a file in your git root directory named  gitignore  It s a file  not a command  You just need to insert the names of the files that you want to ignore  and they will automatically be ignored  For example  if you wanted to ignore all emacs autosave files  which end in    then you could add this line        If you want to remove the unwanted files from your branch  you can use git add -A  which  removes files that are no longer in the working tree    Note  What I called the  git root directory  is simply the directory in which you used git init for the first time  It is also where you can find the  git directory

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