How do I ignore all files in a folder with a Git repository in Sourcetree

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I have a Bitbucket Git repository managed with Sourcetree   I have two folders that I want to commit  but I need to ignore all the files in these folders  because they contain only temporary files   How can I do that

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For Sourcetree users  If you want to ignore a specific folder  just select a file from this folder  right-click on it and do  Ignore      You will have a pop-up menu where you can ignore  Ignore everything beneath   lt YOUR UNWANTED FOLDER         If you have the  Ignore  option greyed out  you have to select the  Stop Tracking  option  After that the file will be added to Staged files with a minus sign on red background icon and the file s icon in Unstaged files list will change to a question sign on a violet background  Now in Unstaged files list  the  Ignore  option is enabled again  Just do as described above

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As far as I know  Git doesn t track folders  only files - so empty folders  or folders where all files are ignored  cannot be committed  If you e g  need the folder to be present due to some step in your build process  perhaps you can have your build tool create it instead  Or you could put one empty  unignored file in the folder and commit it

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Right click on a file  rarr  Ignore  rarr  Ignore everything beneath   If the Ignore option is grayed out then    Stage a file first Right click  rarr  Stop Tracking That file will appear in the pane below with a question mark  rarr  Right click on it rarr  Ignore

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After beating my head on this for at least an hour  I offer this answer to try to expand on the comments some others have made   To ignore a folder directory  do the following   if you don t have a  gitignore file in the root of your project  that name exactly   gitignore    create a dummy text file in the folder you want to exclude   Inside of Source Tree  right click on it and select Ignore   You ll get a popup that looks like this       Select  Everything underneath  and select the folder you want to ignore from the drop-down list   This will create a  gitignore file in your root directory and put the folder specification in it     If you do have a  gitignore folder already in your root folder  you could follow the same approach above  or you can just edit the  gitignore file and add the folder you want to exclude   It s just a text file   Note that it uses forward slashes in path names rather than backslashes  as we Windows users are accustomed to   I tried creating a  gitignore text file by hand in Windows Explorer  but it didn t let me create a file without a name  i e  with only the extension    Note that adding the  gitignore and the file specification will have no effect on files that are already being tracked   If you re already tracking these  you ll have to stop tracking them    Right-click on the folder or file and select Stop Tracking    You ll then see them change from having a green clean or amber changed icon to a red removed icon   On your next commit the files will be removed from the repository and thereafter appear with a blue ignored icon  Another contributor asked why Ignore was disabled for particular files and I believe it was because he was trying to ignore a file that was already being tracked   You can only ignore a file that has a  blue question mark icon

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Ignore all files in folder with Git in Sourcetree

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As mentioned by others  git doesn t track folders  only files   You can ensure a folder exists with these commands  or equivalent logic    echo      gt  keepthisfolder  gitignore git add --force keepthisfolder  gitignore git commit -m  adding git ignore file to keepthisfolder    The existence of the file will mean anyone checking out the repository will have the folder   The contents of the gitignore file will mean anything in it are ignored  You do not need to not-ignore the  gitignore file itself  It is a rule which would serve no purpose at all once committed   OR  if you prefer to keep all your ignore definitions in the same place  you can create  gitignore in the root of your project with contents like so     tmp   example  ignore all  tmp files in any folder path to keepthisfolder path to keepthatfolder   and to ensure the folders exist  touch path to keepthisfolder anything git add --force path to keepthisfolder anything git commit -m  ensure keepthisfolder exists when checked out     anything  can literally be anything  Common used names are  gitignore   gitkeep  empty

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In Sourcetree  Just ignore a file in specified folder  Sourcetree will ask if you like to ignore all files in that folder  It s perfect

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If your Ignore option is grayed out  you have to stop tracking the file before you can ignore it  You can simply right click on the file and hit  Stop Tracking    A blue icon should appear next to it  Right click on it again and click ignore

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Add this to  gitignore       gitignore

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Ignore full folder on source tree          Just Open Repository  gt Repository setting  gt  Edit git ignore File and     you can rite some thing like this       pdb    bak    dll   lib   gitignore packages     bin    obj     For bin folder and obj folder just write      bin     obj

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