gitignore all files of extension in directory

Question

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

User · Accepted Answer

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

User · Answer

UPDATE  Take a look at  Joey s answer  Git now supports the    syntax in patterns  Both approaches should work fine     The gitignore 5  man page states      Patterns read from a  gitignore file in the same directory as the path  or in any parent directory  with patterns in the higher level files  up to the toplevel of the work tree  being overridden by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the file    What this means is that the patterns in a  gitignore file in any given directory of your repo will affect that directory and all subdirectories   The pattern you provided   public static      js   isn t quite right  firstly because  as you correctly noted  the    syntax is not used by Git  Also  the leading   anchors that pattern to the start of the pathname   So   public static   js will match  public static foo js but not  public static foo bar js   Removing the leading   won t work either  matching paths like public static foo js and foo public static bar js  EDIT  Just removing the leading slash won t work either     because the pattern still contains a slash  it is treated by Git as a plain  non-recursive shell glob  thanks  Joey Hoer for pointing this out    As  ptyx suggested  what you need to do is create the file  lt repo gt  public static  gitignore and include just this pattern     js   There is no leading    so it will match at any part of the path  and that pattern will only ever be applied to files in the  public static directory and its subdirectories

User · Answer

I have tried opening the  gitignore file in my vscode  windows 10  There you can see  some previously added ignore files  if any   To create a new rule to ignore a file with   js  extension  append the extension of the file like this    js  This will ignore all  js files in your git repository  To exclude certain type of file from a particular directory  you can add this     foo   js  This will ignore all  js files inside only  foo  directory  For a detailed learning you can visit  about git-ignore

User · Answer

To ignore untracked files just go to  git info exclude  Exclude is a file with a list of ignored extensions or files

User · Answer

It would appear that the    syntax is supported by git as of version 1 8 2 1 according to the documentation      Two consecutive asterisks        in patterns matched against full pathname may have special meaning          A leading      followed by a slash means match in all directories  For   example      foo  matches file or directory  foo  anywhere  the same   as pattern  foo       foo bar  matches file or directory  bar    anywhere that is directly under directory  foo     A trailing       matches everything inside  For example   abc       matches all files inside directory  abc   relative to the location of   the  gitignore file  with infinite depth    A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash matches   zero or more directories  For example   a    b  matches  a b      a x b    a x y b  and so on    Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid

User · Answer

I believe the simplest solution would be to use find  I do not like to have multiple  gitignore hanging around in sub-directories and I prefer to manage a unique  top-level  gitignore  To do so you could simply append the found files to your  gitignore  Supposing that  public static  is your project git home I would use something like   find   -type f -name   js   cut -c 3-  gt  gt   gitignore   I found that cutting out the    at the beginning is often necessary for git to understand which files to avoid  Therefore the cut -c 3-

[git] gitignore all files of extension in directory

Examples related to git

Examples related to gitignore