Commit empty folder structure (with git) [duplicate]
Just add a file .gitkeep in every folder you want committed. On windows do so by right clicking when in the folder and select: Git bash from here. Then type: touch .gitkeep
gitignore
Can I include other .gitignore file in a .gitignore file? (like #include in c-like languages)
You could: Have a template repo with: those xxx.gitignore files in it: a .gitignore file with “xxx-gitignore-xxx” in it (in other word, with a content you can easily identify a .gitattribute filter driver (for each new repo, you clone it and can start with those files already there. Then you remove the remote ‘origin‘, or … Read more
Extended regular expressions (ERE) for .gitignore
As illustrated here and detailed in “this question“, the function fnmatch() is involved to interpret glob patterns, which means regular expressions are not supported. This is what gitignore man page mentions: Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: wildcards in the pattern will not … Read more
gitignore by file size?
I’m new to .gitignore, so there may be better ways to do this, but I’ve been excluding files by file size using: find . -size +1G | cat >> .gitignore Obviously you’ll have to run this code frequently if you’re generating a lot of large files.
Ignoring a directory from a Git repo after it’s been added
I was able to get this working with git rm -r –cached bin/ (note the recursive -r)in the root of the repo – are you talking about finding the bin directories and untracking them? You will have to commit before the exclusion is reflected. I just saw that you were on Windows. This was in … Read more
working with .git/info/exclude too late
To remove a file that you have added but not committed, use a command like this: git rm –cached file.to.remove This will remove the file from the index, but not touch the file on disk. To remove a file (or files) from the most recent commit, use the above git rm –cached command followed by … Read more
Git Ignores and Maven targets
The .gitignore file in the root directory does apply to all subdirectories. Mine looks like this: .classpath .project .settings/ target/ This is in a multi-module maven project. All the submodules are imported as individual eclipse projects using m2eclipse. I have no further .gitignore files. Indeed, if you look in the gitignore man page: Patterns read … Read more
Unignore subdirectories of ignored directories in Git
According to pattern format section of the gitignore documentation: An optional prefix “!” which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn’t list excluded directories for performance reasons, so … Read more
git ignore all files of a certain type, except those in a specific subfolder
An optional prefix ! which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will override lower precedence patterns sources. https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore *.json !spec/*.json
Why is .gitignore not ignoring my files?
.gitignore only ignores files that are not part of the repository yet. If you already git added some files, their changes will still be tracked. To remove those files from your repository (but not from your file system) use git rm –cached on them.