.gitignore file in Sourcetree not working

Question

I am working on a maven project and I want to ignore the files generated and stored in the /target folder of my project (Evaluation) root folder.In the root of my git repository

Answer 1

In addition to the answers already provided above, also note that the .gitignore file will not work if it is not in the root folder.

I had a project where .gitignore was here /projectname/.gitignore and therefore was not being read. So I moved it to /.gitignore and all was well again.