Rubymine: How to make Git ignore .idea files created by Rubymine

Question

I use Rubymine for Rails projects. Very often, Rubymine makes changes in .idea/* files that I don\'t care about. But it keeps preventing me from checking out ne

Answer 1

Use .ignore plugin: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7495--ignore

It manages a lot of paths/patterns for you automatically and also has many useful extra features. It's compatible with:

• IntelliJ IDEA
• PhpStorm
• WebStorm
• PyCharm
• RubyMine
• AppCode
• CLion
• GoLand
• DataGrip
• Rider
• MPS
• Android Studio

Answer 2

just .idea/ works fine for me

Answer 3

What about .idea/* ? Didn't test, but it should do it

Answer 4

You may use gitignore for advanced gitignore file generation. It's fast, easy and cutting edge tags are automatically generated for you.

Use this link for most of jetbrains softwares (intelij, phpstorm...) jetbrains .gitignore file

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Below is the generated gitignore file for Jetbrains Softwares, this will prevent you from sharing sensitive informations (passwords, keystores, db passwords...) used by any of Jetbrains software to manage projects.

# Created by https://www.gitignore.io

### Intellij ###
# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm

*.iml

## Directory-based project format:
.idea/
# if you remove the above rule, at least ignore the following:

# User-specific stuff:
# .idea/workspace.xml
# .idea/tasks.xml
# .idea/dictionaries

# Sensitive or high-churn files:
# .idea/dataSources.ids
# .idea/dataSources.xml
# .idea/sqlDataSources.xml
# .idea/dynamic.xml
# .idea/uiDesigner.xml

# Gradle:
# .idea/gradle.xml
# .idea/libraries

# Mongo Explorer plugin:
# .idea/mongoSettings.xml

## File-based project format:
*.ipr
*.iws

## Plugin-specific files:

# IntelliJ
/out/

# mpeltonen/sbt-idea plugin
.idea_modules/

# JIRA plugin
atlassian-ide-plugin.xml

# Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
com_crashlytics_export_strings.xml
crashlytics.properties
crashlytics-build.properties

Generated code is also well commented. hope it helps :)

Answer 5

If you've already made an initial commit and you have .idea files showing up as new files in git, you will need to remove the files first and then commit them. The following steps will do the trick

 1. git rm --cached -r .idea/
 2. Add .idea/ to **.git/info/exclude** or **.gitignore**
 3. git commit -m 'ignore .idea/ files'

It's explained in detail in this link here: https://devconnected.com/how-to-clear-git-cache/

Answer 6

I suggest reading the git man page to fully understand how ignore work, and in the future you'll thank me ;)

Relevant to your problem:

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.