Add newly created specific folder to .gitignore in Git

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Lee picture Lee · Aug 26, 2009 · Viewed 165.9k times · Source

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 <file>..." 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/*

Answer

Michael Krelin - hacker picture Michael Krelin - hacker · Aug 26, 2009

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).

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