How to use gitignore command in git

Question

I\'m working first time on git. I have pushed my branch on github and it pushed all the library and documents into the github. Now what can I do and how can I use gitignore comm

Answer 1

If you dont have a .gitignore file, first use:

touch .gitignore

then this command to add lines in your gitignore file:

echo 'application/cache' >> .gitignore

Be careful about new lines

Answer 2

So based on what you said, these files are libraries/documentation you don't want to delete but also don't want to push to github. Let say you have your project in folder your_project and a doc directory: your_project/doc.

1. Remove it from the project directory (without actually deleting it): git rm --cached doc/*
2. If you don't already have a .gitignore, you can make one right inside of your project folder: project/.gitignore.
3. Put doc/* in the .gitignore
4. Stage the file to commit: git add project/.gitignore
5. Commit: git commit -m "message".
6. Push your change to github.

Answer 3

There is a file in your git root directory named .gitignore. It's a file, not a command. You just need to insert the names of the files that you want to ignore, and they will automatically be ignored. For example, if you wanted to ignore all emacs autosave files, which end in ~, then you could add this line:

*~

If you want to remove the unwanted files from your branch, you can use git add -A, which "removes files that are no longer in the working tree".

Note: What I called the "git root directory" is simply the directory in which you used git init for the first time. It is also where you can find the .git directory.

Answer 4

If you don't have a .gitignore file. You can create a new one by

touch .gitignore

And you can exclude a folder by entering the below command in the .gitignore file

/folderName

push this file into your git repository so that when a new person clone your project he don't have to add the same again

Answer 5

There are several ways to use gitignore git

• specifying by the specific filename. for example, to ignore a file
  called readme.txt, just need to write readme.txt in .gitignore file.
• you can also write the name of the file extension. For example, to
  ignore all .txt files, write *.txt.
• you can also ignore a whole folder. for example you want to ignore
  folder named test. Then just write test/ in the file.

just create a .gitignore file and write in whatever you want to ignore a sample gitignore file would be:

# NPM packages folder.
node_modules

# Build files
dist/

# lock files
yarn.lock
package-lock.json

# Logs
logs
*.log
npm-debug.log*

# node-waf configuration
.lock-wscript

# Optional npm cache directory
.npm

# Optional REPL history
.node_repl_history

# Jest Coverage
coverage

.history/

You can find more on git documentation gitignore

Answer 6

on my mac i found this file .gitignore_global ..it was in my home directory hidden so do a ls -altr to see it.

I added eclipse files i wanted git to ignore. the contents looks like this:

 *~
.DS_Store
.project
.settings
.classpath
.metadata