Add newly created specific folder to gitignore in Git

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I had a clean working directory and brought in a clone from a Git repo last night   But now my local server created and contains a stats folder which I want to ignore    I can t seem to get Git to ignore this folder when I run a git status   On branch master Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 1 commit   Changes to be committed     use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage       new file  app public views pages privacy php     new file  app public views pages terms php     new file  public html stats ctry usage 200908 png     new file  public html stats daily usage 200908 png     new file  public html stats dns cache db     new file  public html stats hourly usage 200908 png     new file  public html stats index html     new file  public html stats usage png     new file  public html stats usage 200908 html     new file  public html stats webalizer current     new file  public html stats webalizer hist  Changed but not updated      modified   gitignore   I added in my  gitignore a few different lines but it still trying to add them   public html stats public html stats    public html stats      public html stats

User · Accepted Answer

Try  public html stats      But since the files in git status reported as to be commited that means you ve already added them manually  In which case  of course  it s a bit too late to ignore  You can git rm --cache them  IIRC

User · Answer

I m incredibly lazy  I just did a search hoping to find a shortcut to this problem but didn t get an answer so I knocked this up      bin IGNORE ALL      bin bash   Usage  IGNORE ALL  lt commit message gt                                                                                                                               git status --porcelain   grep         cut -f2 -d     gt  gt   gitignore               git commit -m       gitignore    EG  IGNORE ALL added stat ignores   This will just append all the ignore files to your  gitignore and commit  note you might want to add annotations to the file afterwards

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It s  public html stats         myrepo gt  ls public html stats  bar baz foo     myrepo gt  cat  gitignore  public html stats       myrepo gt  git status   On branch master     Initial commit     Untracked files       use  git add  lt file gt      to include in what will be committed         gitignore nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  git add  to track      myrepo gt

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From  git help ignore  we learn      If the pattern ends with a slash  it   is removed for the purpose of the   following description  but it would   only find a match with a directory  In   other words  foo  will match a   directory foo and paths underneath it    but will not match a regular file or a   symbolic link foo  this is consistent   with              the way how pathspec works in general in git     Therefore what you need is      public html stats

User · Answer

For this there are two cases  Case 1  File already added to git repo   Case 2  File newly created and its status still showing as untracked file when using   git status   If you have case 1    STEP 1  Then run   git rm --cached filename    to remove it from git repo cache  if it is a directory then  use   git rm -r --cached  directory name   STEP 2  If Case 1 is over then create new file named  gitignore in your git repo  STEP 3  Use following to tell git to ignore   assume file is unchanged  git update-index --assume-unchanged path to file txt   STEP 4  Now  check status using git status open  gitignore in your editor nano  vim  geany etc    any one  add the path of the file   folder to ignore  If it is a folder then user folder name   to ignore all file   If you still do not understand read the article git ignore file link

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