Rubymine How to make Git ignore idea files created by Rubymine

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I use Rubymine for Rails projects  Very often  Rubymine makes changes in  idea   files that I don t care about  But it keeps preventing me from checking out new branches  and makes my version of  idea  different from my coworkers   We already added  idea  to  gitignore  but it keeps tracking changes in  idea  How should I do this the right way   Below is one of typical error messages I got   error  Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout       idea workspace xml

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if a file is already being tracked by Git, adding the file to .gitignore won’t stop Git from tracking it. You’ll need to do git rm the offending file(s) first, then add to your .gitignore.

Adding .idea/ should work

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Add  idea to    gitignore global and follow the instructions here to get  gitignore global working   Git global ignore not working  Then you don t have to ever add it to an individual  gitignore file

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While it s not been too long that I made the switch to Rubymine  I found it challenging ignoring  idea files of Rubymine from been committed to git   Here s how I fixed it  If you ve not done any staging commit at all  or you just spinned up a new project in Ruby mine  then simply do this  Option 1  Add the line below to the  gitignore file which is usually placed at the root of your repository     Ignore  idea files  idea    This will ensure that all  idea files are ignored from been tracked by git  although they will still remain in your project folder locally   Option 2  If you ve however done some staging commit  or you just opened up an existing project in Ruby mine  then simply do this  Run the code in your terminal command line  git rm -r --cached  idea   This deletes already tracked  idea files in git  Next  include  idea  to the  gitignore file which is usually placed at the root of your repository     Ignore  idea files  idea    This will ensure that all  idea files are ignored from been tracked by git  although they will still remain in your project folder locally   Option 3  If you ve however done some staging commit  or you just opened up an existing project in Ruby mine  and want to totally delete  idea files locally and in git  then simply do this  Run the code in your terminal command line  git rm -r --cached  idea   This deletes already tracked  idea files in git  Run the code in your terminal command line  rm -r  idea   This deletes all  idea files including the folder locally  Next  include  idea  to the  gitignore file which is usually placed at the root of your repository     Ignore  idea files  idea    This will ensure that all  idea files are ignored from been tracked by git  and also deleted from your project folder locally   That s all  I hope this helps

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You may use gitignore for advanced gitignore file generation  It s fast  easy and cutting edge tags are automatically generated for you   Use this link for most of jetbrains softwares  intelij  phpstorm     jetbrains  gitignore file   edit   Below is the generated gitignore file for Jetbrains Softwares  this will prevent you from sharing sensitive informations  passwords  keystores  db passwords     used by any of Jetbrains software to manage projects      Created by https   www gitignore io      Intellij       Covers JetBrains IDEs  IntelliJ  RubyMine  PhpStorm  AppCode  PyCharm    iml     Directory-based project format   idea    if you remove the above rule  at least ignore the following     User-specific stuff     idea workspace xml    idea tasks xml    idea dictionaries    Sensitive or high-churn files     idea dataSources ids    idea dataSources xml    idea sqlDataSources xml    idea dynamic xml    idea uiDesigner xml    Gradle     idea gradle xml    idea libraries    Mongo Explorer plugin     idea mongoSettings xml     File-based project format    ipr   iws     Plugin-specific files     IntelliJ  out     mpeltonen sbt-idea plugin  idea modules     JIRA plugin atlassian-ide-plugin xml    Crashlytics plugin  for Android Studio and IntelliJ  com crashlytics export strings xml crashlytics properties crashlytics-build properties   Generated code is also well commented  hope it helps

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JetBrains has a  gitignore global on GitHub

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Add  idea   to your exclusion list to prevent tracking of all  idea files  directories  and sub-resources

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What about  idea     Didn t test  but it should do it

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In the rubymine gui  there is an ignore list  settings version control   Maybe try disabling it there  I got the hint from their support guys

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using git rm -r --cached  idea in your terminal worked great for me  It disables the change tracking and unset a number of files under the rubymine folder  idea   that I could then add and commit to git  thus removing the comparison and allowing the gitignore setting of  idea  to work

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For me there was only one solution to remove  idea folder than commit file  gitignore with   idea  and than use IDE again

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Use  ignore plugin  https   plugins jetbrains com plugin 7495--ignore  It manages a lot of paths patterns for you automatically and also has many useful extra features  It s compatible with     IntelliJ IDEA  PhpStorm  WebStorm    PyCharm    RubyMine    AppCode   CLion    GoLand   DataGrip    Rider   MPS    Android Studio

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If you ve already made an initial commit and you have  idea files showing up as new files in git  you will need to remove the files first and then commit them  The following steps will do the trick  1  git rm --cached -r  idea   2  Add  idea  to    git info exclude   or    gitignore    3  git commit -m  ignore  idea  files   It s explained in detail in this link here  https   devconnected com how-to-clear-git-cache

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I suggest reading the git man page to fully understand how ignore work  and in the future you ll thank me     Relevant to your problem   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

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Close PHP Storm in terminal go to the project folder type  git rm -rf  idea  git commit -m  delete  idea   git push    Then go to project folder  and delete the folder  idea  sudo rm -r  idea    Start PhpStorm and you are done

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Note that JetBrains recommends  quot If you decide to share IDE project files with other developers    quot   tracking all the  idea   files except for the following   workspace xml usage statistics xml tasks xml the shelf  directory  So to follow their advice  you would add those to your  gitignore   Source   If you decide to share IDE project files with other developers  follow these guidelines      Here is what you need to share   All the files under  idea directory in the project root except the workspace xml  usage statistics xml  and tasks xml files and the shelf directory which store user specific settings       How to manage projects under Version Control Systems  archive  There s some additional notes and discussion on that page that you should read if you re considering going ahead with this  including additional files you may want to gitignore even if you decided you want to share IDE files  e g   iml files   idea modules xml  gradle xml  user dictionaries folder  additional files that are generated from gradle or maven

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Try git rm -r --cached  idea in your terminal  It disables the change tracking

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I tried to added those files into my  gitignore and it was useless     Nevertheless  as Petr Syrov said  you can use git rm -r --cached  idea into your terminal and those files won t be a problem anymore

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just  idea  works fine for me

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