ignoring any bin directory on a git project

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I have a directory structure like this    git   gitignore main        tools              Inside main and tools  and any other directory  at any level  there can be a  bin  directory  which I want to ignore  and I want to ignore everything under it too   I ve tried each of these patterns in  gitignore but none of them work       bin            bin           bin         bin        bin      bin          bin    and the others with just   at the end too   Can anyone help me out  The first pattern  the one I think should be working  works just fine if I do this    main    bin        But I don t want to have an entry for every top-level directory and I don t want to have to modify  gitignore every time I add a new one   This is on Windows using the latest msysgit   EDIT  one more thing  there are files and directories that have the substring  bin  in their names  I don t want those to be ignored

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for 2 13 3 and onwards writing just bin in your  gitignore file should ignore the bin and all its subdirectories and files      bin

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I didn t see it mentioned here  but this appears to be case sensitive  Once I changed to  Bin the files were ignored as expected

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Bb in will solve the problem  but     Here a more extensive list of things you should ignore  sample list by GitExtension     ignore thumbnails created by windows Thumbs db  Ignore files build by Visual Studio   user   aps   pch   vspscc   i c   p c   ncb   suo   bak   cache   ilk   log  Bb in  Dd ebug     sbr obj   Rr elease    ReSharper

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Literally none of the answers actually worked for me  the only one that worked for me was  on Linux       bin  yes without the   in the end   git version 2 18 0

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Before version 1 8 2     didn t have any special meaning in the  gitignore  As of 1 8 2 git supports    to mean zero or more sub-directories  see release notes    The way to ignore all directories called bin anywhere below the current level in a directory tree is with a  gitignore file with the pattern   bin    In the man page  there an example of ignoring a directory called foo using an analogous pattern   Edit   If you already have any bin folders in your git index which you no longer wish to track then you need to remove them explicitly  Git won t stop tracking paths that are already being tracked just because they now match a new  gitignore pattern  Execute a folder remove  rm  from index only  --cached  recursivelly  -r   Command line example for root bin folder   git rm -r --cached bin

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If you re looking for a great global  gitignore file for any Visual Studio    NET   solution - I recommend you to use this one  https   github com github gitignore blob master VisualStudio gitignore  AFAIK it has the most comprehensive  gitignore for  NET projects

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Adding    bin  to the  gitignore file did the trick for me  Note  bin folder wasn t added to index

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Bb in    matches both upper and lower case

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If the pattern inside  gitignore ends with a slash    it will only find a match with a directory   In other words  bin  will match a directory bin and paths underneath it  but will not match a regular file or a symbolic link bin     If the pattern does not contain a slash  like in bin Git treats it as a shell glob pattern  greedy   So best would be to use simple  bin   bin would not be the best solution for this particular problem

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Step 1  Add following content to the file  gitignore   x000D   x000D    User-specific files   suo   user   userosscache   sln docstates    Build results  Dd ebug   Dd ebugPublic   Rr elease   Rr eleases  x64  x86  bld   Bb in   Oo bj     Visual Studio 2015 cache options directory  vs  x000D   x000D   x000D   Step 2  Make sure take effect If the issue still exists  that s because settings in  gitignore can only ignore files that were originally not tracked  If some files have already been included in the version control system  then modifying  gitignore is invalid  To solve this issue completely  you need to open Git Bash or Package Manager Console  see screenshot below  to run following commands in the repository root folder   x000D   x000D  git rm -r --cached   git add   git commit -m  Update  gitignore  x000D   x000D   x000D    Then the issue will be completely solved

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In my case encoding of gitignore file was problematic  check if it is UTF-8

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In addition to  CB Bailey s answer  I tried to remove multiple folders  in subfolders  named et-cache  caching folder from Wordpress divi theme  from the index and from being tracked  I added et-cache   to the  gitignore file  But git rm -r --cached et-cache  resulted in an error   fatal  pathspec  et-cache  did not match any files  So the solution was to use powershell  Get-ChildItem et-cache -Recurse     git rm -r --cached    FullName   This searches for all subfolders named et-cache  Each of the folders path  fullname  is then used to remove it from tracking in git

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The    never properly worked before  but since git 1 8 2  March  8th 2013   it seems to be explicitly mentioned and supported   The patterns in  gitignore and  gitattributes files can have      as a pattern that matches 0 or more levels of subdirectory  E g   quot foo    bar quot  matches  quot bar quot  in  quot foo quot  itself or in a subdirectory of  quot foo quot    In your case  that means this line might now be supported   main    bin

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The  gitignore of your dream seems to be   bin    on the top level

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As a notice   If you think about  gitignore does not work in a way  so added foo   folder in it but git status still showing that folder content s  as modified or something like this   then you can use this command   git checkout -- foo

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I think it is worth to mention for git beginners      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   So if you want add to ignore some directories in your local repository  which already exist  after editing  gitignore you want to run this on your root dir  git rm --cached -r   git add     It will basically  refresh  your local repo and unstage ignored files    See   http   git-scm com docs git-rm   https   help github com articles ignoring-files

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