How to ignore certain files in Git

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I have a repository with a file  Hello java  When I compile it  an additional Hello class file is generated   I created an entry for Hello class in a  gitignore file  However  the file still appears to be tracked   How can I make Git ignore Hello class

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Go to  gitignore file and add the entry for the files you want to ignore Run git rm -r --cached   Now run git add

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To ignore   git update-index --assume-unchanged  lt path to file gt    To undo ignore   git update-index --no-assume-unchanged  lt path to file gt

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for compiled code  just write  class or  o

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If you have already committed the file and you are trying to ignore it by adding to the  gitignore file  Git will not ignore it  For that  you first have to do the below things   git rm --cached FILENAME   If you are starting the project freshly and you want to add some files to Git ignore  follow the below steps to create a Git ignore file    Navigate to your Git repository  Enter  touch  gitignore  which will create a  gitignore file

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Create a  gitignore in the directory where  git is  You can list files in it separated by a newline  You also can use wildcards     o    swp

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This webpage may be useful and time-saving when working with  gitignore   It automatically generates  gitignore files for different IDEs and operating systems with the specific files folders that you usually don t want to pull to your Git repository  for instance  IDE-specific folders and configuration files

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You can also use  gitattributes  instead of  gitignore  to exclude entire filetypes  The file is pretty self-explanatory  but I m pasting the contents here for reference  Pay attention to the last line    class binary      Denote all files that are truly binary and should not be modified    png binary   jpg binary   gif binary   ico binary   mo binary   pdf binary   phar binary   class binary

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Add which files you want to ignore to file  gitignore     class    projects    prefs    project

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Add the following line to  gitignore    Hello class   This will exclude Hello class from git   If you have already committed it  run the following command   git rm Hello class   If you want to exclude all class files from git  add the following line to  gitignore     class

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You can use below methods for ignoring not-ignoring changes in tracked files    For ignoring  git update-index --assume-unchanged  lt file gt  For reverting ignored files  git update-index --no-assume-unchanged  lt file gt

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Add the following line to  git info exclude  Hello class

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git reset filename git rm --cached filename  then add your file which you want to ignore it  then commit and push to your repository

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I tried this -    list files which we want to ignore    git status  idea xyz xml  idea pqr iml Output  DS Store   Copy the content of step 1 and append it into  gitignore file    echo    idea xyz xml  idea pqr iml Output  DS Store   gt  gt   gitignore   Validate   git status  gitignore  likewise we can add directory and all of its sub dir files which we want to ignore in git status using directoryname   and I executed this command from src directory

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The problem is that  gitignore ignores just files that weren t tracked before  by git add   Run git reset name of file to unstage the file and keep it  In case you want to also remove the given file from the repository  after pushing   use git rm --cached name of file

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You should write something like    class   into your  gitignore file

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I had a similar issue with file  dump rdb   I tried adding this file in various ways to  gitignore file  but only one way worked      Add your filename  at the end of  gitignore file     NOTE  Adding the file anywhere else didn t work   For example  see  https   gitlab com gitlab-org gitlab-ce raw b3ad3f202478dd88a3cfe4461703bc3df1019f90  gitignore

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First create a  gitignore file where we have to store the names of files and directories to be ignored  To ignore a directory  name of directory   To ignore a file  name of file  We don t need to provide the complete path of the file or directory to be ignored  we just have to provide its name  If you want to ignore all files with same extention    pyc   will ignore all files with pyc extention

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By creating a  gitignore file  See here for details  Git Book - Ignoring files  Also check this one out  How do you make Git ignore files without using  gitignore

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How to ignore new files  Globally  Add the path s  to your file s  which you would like to ignore to your  gitignore file  and commit them   These file entries will also apply to others checking out the repository   Locally  Add the path s  to your file s  which you would like to ignore to your  git info exclude file  These file entries will only apply to your local working copy   How to ignore changed files  temporarily   In order to ignore changed files to being listed as modified  you can use the following git command   git update-index --assume-unchanged  lt file gt    To revert that ignorance use the following command   git update-index --no-assume-unchanged  lt file gt

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From the official GitHub site   If you already have a file checked in  and you want to ignore it  Git will not ignore the file if you add a rule later  In those cases  you must untrack the file first  by running the following command in your terminal   git rm --cached FILENAME   or  git rm --cached

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I have tried the --assume-unchanged and also the  gitignore but neither worked well  They make it hard to switch branches and hard to merge changes from others  This is my solution   When I commit  I manually remove the files from the list of changes  Before I pull  I stash the changed files  And after pull  I do a stash pop    git stash  git pull git stash pop   Step 3 sometimes will trigger a merge and may result in conflict that you need to resolve  which is a good thing   This allows me to keep local changes that are not shared with others on the team

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1  Create a  gitignore file  To do that  you just create a  txt file and change the extension as follows     Then you have to change the name  writing the following line in a cmd window    rename git txt  gitignore   Where git txt is the name of the file you ve just created   Then you can open the file and write all the files you don   t want to add on the repository  For example  mine looks like this    OS junk files  Tt humbs db   DS Store   Visual Studio files    Oo bj   user   aps   pch   vspscc   vssscc   i c   p c   ncb   suo   tlb   tlh   bak    Cc ache   ilk   log   lib   sbr   sdf   pyc   xml ipch  obj   Bb in  Dd ebug    Rr elease   Ankh NoLoad   Tooling  ReSharper     resharper  Tt est Rr esult    Project files  Bb uild    Subversion files  svn    Office Temp Files       Once you have this  you need to add it to your Git repository  You have to save the file where your repository is    Then in Git Bash you have to write the following line   git config --global core excludesfile    gitignore global   If the repository already exists then you have to do the following    git rm -r --cached   git add   git commit -m   gitignore is now working    If the step 2 doesn   t work then you should write the whole route of the files that you would like to add

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