gitignore binary files that have no extension

Question

How can binary files be ignored in git using the .gitignore file?

Example:

$ g++ hello.c -o hello

The

Answer 1

You may try in your .gitignore:

*
!*.c

This approach has many disadvantages, but it's acceptable for small projects.

Answer 2

I don't know any other solution but adding them one by one to .gitignore.

A crude way to test is to grep the file command's output:

find . \( ! -regex '.*/\..*' \) -type f | xargs -n 1 file | egrep "ASCII|text"

EDIT

Why don't you simply name you executable hello.bin?

Answer 3

If you follow these commands on your .gitignore file and files still seems to appear you may want to try:

git rm --cached FILENAME

After that, add your .gitignore, commit and push. Took me 40 minutes to understand that, hope this helps to newbies like me

Answer 4

Binary files are often without extensions. If this is your case try this:

*
!/**/
!*.*

REF: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19023985/1060487

Answer 5

I created a .gitignore file with two entries in GOPATH directory.

/bin
/pkg

It ignore all the compiled developments, currently.

Answer 6

# Ignore all
*

# Unignore all with extensions
!*.*

# Unignore all dirs
!*/

### Above combination will ignore all files without extension ###

# Ignore files with extension `.class` & `.sm`
*.class
*.sm

# Ignore `bin` dir
bin/
# or
*/bin/*

# Unignore all `.jar` in `bin` dir
!*/bin/*.jar

# Ignore all `library.jar` in `bin` dir
*/bin/library.jar

# Ignore a file with extension
relative/path/to/dir/filename.extension

# Ignore a file without extension
relative/path/to/dir/anotherfile