Can t ignore UserInterfaceState xcuserstate

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I m using Git for Xcode 4 project version control   I ve explicitly added ProjectFolder xcodeproj project xcworkspace xcuserdata myUserName xcuserdatad UserInterfaceState xcuserstate to  gitignore  but Git it won t ignore it   Any ideas why this is so

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This works for me    Open the folder which contains the project file project xcworkspace from the terminal  Write this command  git rm --cached  xcuserstate   This will remove the file

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For me nothing worked  but this  add this line to your gitignore    xcuserdata

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Here is a very nice explanation of how to remove the files in question recursively from your git history  http   help github com remove-sensitive-data   Very useful  because otherwise tools tend to  hang  while trying to show the diff on those huge files that shouldn t have been checked in the first place     Here s what you can do  in short  to get rid of the largest stuff   cd YourProject git filter-branch --index-filter  git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch -r YourProject xcodeproj project xcworkspace  HEAD   see what you want to do with your remote here      you can  git push origin master --force   or you can delete it and push a fresh new one from your cleaned-up local    rm -rf  git refs original git gc --prune now git gc --aggressive --prune now   Worked very nicely for me

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In case that the ignored file kept showing up in the untracked list  you may use git clean -f -d to clear things up    1   git rm --cached  YourProjectFolderName  xcodeproj project xcworkspace xcuserdata  yourUserName  xcuserdatad UserInterfaceState xcuserstate   2   git commit -m  Removed file that shouldn t be tracked    3      WARNING first try git clean -f -d --dry-run  otherwise you may lose uncommited changes   Then      git clean -f -d

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Had a friend show me this amazing site https   www gitignore io   Enter the IDE of your choice or other options and it will automatically generate a gitignore file consisting of useful ignores  one of which is the xcuserstate  You can preview the gitignore file before downloading

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In case the file keeps showing up even after doing everything mentioned here  make sure that this checkbox in Xcode settings is unchecked

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Here are some demo  amp  short cuts if you uses GitHub  the basic ideas are the same   1  Open terminal like this    2  Paste the below command to terminal followed by a space and then paste the path of the  xcuserstate file simply like this  git rm --cached   3  Make sure you have the correct git ignore and then commit the code

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All Answer is great but here is the one will remove for every user if you work in different Mac  Home and office   git rm --cache   UserInterfaceState xcuserstate git commit -m  Never see you again  UserInterfaceState

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Just       git clean -f -d  worked for me

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I think it would be better to write like this   git rm --cache    UserInterfaceState xcuserstate

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Git is probably already tracking the file   From the gitignore docs      To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked  use git rm --cached    Use this  replacing  project  and  username  with your info   git rm --cached  project  xcodeproj project xcworkspace xcuserdata  username  xcuserdatad UserInterfaceState xcuserstate git commit -m  Removed file that shouldn t be tracked    Alternatively you can use the -a option to git commit that will add all files that have been modified or deleted   Once you ve removed the file from git  it will respect your  gitignore

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For xcode 8 3 3 I just checked tried the above code and observe that  now in this casewe have to change the commands to like this  first you can create a  gitignore file by using    touch  gitignore   after that you can delete all the userInterface file by using this command and by using this command it will respect your  gitignore file    git rm --cached  project  xcworkspace xcuserdata  username  xcuserdatad UserInterfaceState xcuserstate  git commit -m  Removed file that shouldn t be tracked

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