Git - Ignore node modules folder everywhere

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I have a project containing multiple other projects       Main project  Mini project 1 Mini project 2    All containing node modules folder  I want git to ignore the folder no matter where it is starting from the root folder  Something like this to add in  gitignore       node modules

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Add below line to your  gitignore    node modules     This will ignore all node modules in your current directory as well as subdirectory

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Add this  node modules    to  gitignore file to ignore all directories called node modules in current folder and any subfolders

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it will automatically create a  gitignore file if  not then create a file name  gitignore and add copy  amp  paste the below code   dependencies  node modules   pnp  pnp js    testing  coverage    production  build    misc  DS Store  env local  env development local  env test local  env production local  npm-debug log  yarn-debug log  yarn-error log   these below are all unnecessary files See https   help github com articles ignoring-files  for more about ignoring files  and save the  gitignore file and you can upload

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Use the universal one-liner in terminal in the project directory      touch  gitignore  amp  amp  echo  node modules       gitignore  amp  amp  git rm -r --cached node modules   git status   It works no matter if you ve created a  gitignore or not  no matter if you ve added node modules to git tracking or not    Then commit and push the  gitignore changes   Explanation  touch will generate the  gitignore file if it doesn t already exist   echo and  gt  gt  will append node modules  at the end of  gitignore  causing the node modules folder and all subfolders to be ignored   git rm -r --cached removes the node modules folder from git control if it was added before  Otherwise  this will show a warning pathspec  node modules  did not match any files  which has no side effects and you can safely ignore  The flags cause the removal to be recursive and include the cache   git status displays the new changes  A change to  gitignore will appear  while node modules will not appear as it is no longer being tracked by git

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you can do it with SVN Tortoise git as well   just right click on node modules -  Tortoise git -  add to ignore list   This will generate  gitIgnore for you and you won t find node modules folder in staging again

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First and foremost thing is to add  gitignore file in my-app  Like so in image below     and next add this in your  gitignore file   node modules   Note  You can also add others files too to ignore them to be pushed on github  Here are some more files kept in  gitignore  You can add them according to your requirement    is just a way to comment in  gitignore file     See https   help github com ignore-files  for more about ignoring files     dependencies  node modules    testing  coverage    production  build    misc  DS Store  env local  env development local  env test local  env production local  npm-debug log  yarn-debug log  yarn-error log

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Try doing something like this    node modules     is used for a recursive call in the whole project  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   Reference

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Create  gitignore file in root folder directly by code editor or by command  For Mac   Linux  touch  gitignore  For Windows  echo   gitignore  open  gitignore declare folder or file name like this  foldername

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Adding below line in  gitignore will ignore node modules from the entire repository   node modules

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node modules   This works for me  recursive approach to ignore all node modules present in sub folders

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just add different  gitignore files to mini project 1 and mini project 2  Each of the  gitignore files should  node modules and you re good to go

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