.gitignore and Visual Studio project: Ignore bin/Debug directory but not bin/Release directory

Question

I have a C# Visual Studio project in a git repository. I want to ignore the contents bin/Debug directory but not the contents of the bin/Release\' dire

Answer 1

This works for me:

*.exe
*.pdb
*.manifest
*.cache

If you are using GitHub Desktop as I am using it, you can just right click the file you want to exclude or right click it and exclude by extension:

This will automatically generate a .gitignore file for you with the code like above. You can download GitHub Desktop here: GitHub Desktop for Windows 64-bit.

Answer 2

I know it is an old question, but I've decided to share my approach which excludes exactly bin/Debug, bin/Release etc.

*/**/bin/Debug
*/**/bin/Release
*/**/obj/Debug
*/**/obj/Release

Answer 3

This may be slightly off topic, but whenever starting to create a new project, I usually use GitIgnore.IO for creating my initial gitignore file and then I tweek it from there according to my needs.