Re: [git-users] .gitignore directory override adds modified files but not new files

[Mick Killianey]

There's a section at the bottom of the `gitignore` docs (see
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore) that deals specifically with this use
case.  It reads:

Example to exclude everything except a specific directory foo/bar (note the
/* - without the slash, the wildcard would also exclude everything within
foo/bar):

$ cat .gitignore
# exclude everything except directory foo/bar
/*
!/foo
/foo/*
!/foo/bar

(Note the use of the `/*` suffix.)


On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 3:35 AM Frank Millman  wrote:

> A section of my .gitignore looks like this
>
>
> aib/html/ !aib/html/src/
>
>
> The intention is to exclude the contents of aib/html/, but include the
> contents of aib/html/src/.
>
>
> git status correctly shows files in aib/html/src/ that have been modified,
> but does not show files that have been added.
>
>
> How can I get it to include new files?
>
>
> Frank Millman
>
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Re: [git-users] Gitignore add file or folder from terminal

[Rainer M Krug]

vik...@tryjiffy.com writes:

> Hi,
>
> Since everything we are doing from the terminal, then there should be a 
> command to add the file in the gitignore through the terminal. 

Under Linux and OS X at least,

echo "ignore.this.file" >> .gitignore

should do it?

Rainer


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Re: [git-users] Gitignore add file or folder from terminal

[Rainer M Krug]

Good.

Just be sure that you use ">>" which will *append* to the file; while
">" will *overwrite* it!

Cheers,

Rainer

Vikram Mistry  writes:

> Hey Thanks...its working...
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
>
>> vik...@tryjiffy.com writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Since everything we are doing from the terminal, then there should be a
>> > command to add the file in the gitignore through the terminal.
>>
>> Under Linux and OS X at least,
>>
>> echo "ignore.this.file" >> .gitignore
>>
>> should do it?
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks.
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Re: [git-users] .gitignore ignored?

[Sascha Manns]

Hello Rusi,

thank you very much for your help. You was right, the issue is now solved.

Greetings
Sascha

Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2015 06:11:26 UTC+2 schrieb rusi:
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Sascha Manns  > wrote: 
> > Hello list, 
> > 
> > actually i'm having some trouble by using git. My .gitignore shows: 
> > 
> > sascha@sascha-desktop:~/RubymineProjects/hoe-manns$ cat .gitignore 
> > Index.yml 
> > hoe-manns.gemspec 
> > .yardoc 
> > SetupConfig 
> > SetupReceipt 
> > README.txt 
> > doc 
> > ChangeLog 
> > pkg 
> > .teamcity 
> > .idea 
> > Changelog 
> > 
> > But a git status says me: 
> > 
> > sascha@sascha-desktop:~/RubymineProjects/hoe-manns$ LANG=C git status 
> > On branch develop 
> > Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'. 
> > Changes not staged for commit: 
> >   (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) 
> >   (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working 
> directory) 
> > 
> > modified:   .idea/workspace.xml 
>
> A file that is in the repo (already) needs to be removed first to be 
> ignored. See: 
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139762/ignore-files-that-have-already-been-committed-to-a-git-repository
>  
>
> I prefer this for the task (assuming changing history is ok) 
> https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ 
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Re: [git-users] .gitignore ignored?

[Rustom Mody]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Sascha Manns  wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> actually i'm having some trouble by using git. My .gitignore shows:
>
> sascha@sascha-desktop:~/RubymineProjects/hoe-manns$ cat .gitignore
> Index.yml
> hoe-manns.gemspec
> .yardoc
> SetupConfig
> SetupReceipt
> README.txt
> doc
> ChangeLog
> pkg
> .teamcity
> .idea
> Changelog
>
> But a git status says me:
>
> sascha@sascha-desktop:~/RubymineProjects/hoe-manns$ LANG=C git status
> On branch develop
> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
> Changes not staged for commit:
>   (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
>   (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)
>
> modified:   .idea/workspace.xml

A file that is in the repo (already) needs to be removed first to be
ignored. See:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139762/ignore-files-that-have-already-been-committed-to-a-git-repository

I prefer this for the task (assuming changing history is ok)
https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

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Re: [git-users] .gitignore pattern

[Dale R. Worley]

Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com writes:
 Actually, I would like to exclude all files which have the
 following pattern:

 EnergyBalance.org[SOMETEXT]

 I tried

 EnergyBalance.org[.]
 EnergyBalance.org[*]

 but none worked.

I don't know what notation you're using for the following pattern.  Be
aware that Git uses wildcard notation.  (Maybe it can be configured
for other types of notation.)  If you mean that the base file name
(the name within the nearest containing directory) matches the regexp
EnergyBalance\.org.*, the wildcard version is EnergyBalance.org*.

If you want to exclude such files no matter what directory they are in,
put that line in the .gitignore of the top working directory.  If you
want ot exclude such files in a particular directory, put
/EnergyBalance.org* in the .gitignore of the directory.

Dale

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Re: [git-users] .gitignore isn't ignoring.

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 12:49 -0700, gordonle...@gmail.com wrote:
 I've set intellij to ignore the three build files, but it too doesn't
 appear to be ignoring it.

.gitignore only impacts file which are untracked (that you've never
added or committed).  You can't ignore files that you've already told
git are interesting to you, even if you later add them to .gitignore.

 Changes not staged for commit: 
 (use git add file... to update what will be committed) 
 (use git checkout -- file... to discard changes in working
 directory)

 modified: build.number 
 modified: build.properties 
 modified: build.xml

This means someone already committed these files to the repository, and
you've now modified them.  They cannot be ignored.

If they were added to the repository by mistake (usually it's wrong to
add these kinds of build products to the repository, but different
groups do it different ways) then you have to run git rm ... to remove
them from your current version of the repository.  Then if they're
recreated, .gitignore will start ignoring them.

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Re: [git-users] gitignore change for tracked / untracked files

[Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen]

On Friday, January 31, 2014 7:36:52 AM UTC+1, Philipp Kraus wrote:

 Hello,
 sorry for the late answer.

 Am Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2014 21:27:18 UTC+1 schrieb Magnus Therning:

 I'm not 100% sure I understand what you wish to do, but you might want 
 to look at `git clean`.  By default it just lists the files it would 
 delete, you have to pass it '-f' to actually remove stuff.  You can 
 also control whether you want it to deal with ignored files or not. 


 I'm using gitignore like a black list, so my git ignore defines all files 
 which are not allowed.
 If I switch this to a white list, I need a check if everything is all 
 right. git clean works only
 with untracked files, but in my case I have got tracked files, which can 
 be after the gitignore
 changing also ignored. 
 Did you have got an idea, in which way I can change my gitignores, so that 
 I do not forget some files?


So, you want to change .gitignore
and then see which already checked-in files would have been ignored had 
they not been added already..

Well.. Here's a pragmatic approach:

cd repo
mv .git .. # move .git somewhere else temporarily
git init
git status --ignored # behold, all ignored files!
rm -r .git
mv ../.git . #revert to old state

If you don't want to toss your .git dir around, you can achieve the same by 
using the GIT_DIR variable:

cd repo
git --git-dir /tmp/foo.git init #just init an empty repo somewhere
git --git-dir /tmp/foo.git --work-tree . status --ignored  

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Re: [git-users] gitignore change for tracked / untracked files

[Philipp Kraus]

Hello,
sorry for the late answer.

Am Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2014 21:27:18 UTC+1 schrieb Magnus Therning:

 I'm not 100% sure I understand what you wish to do, but you might want 
 to look at `git clean`.  By default it just lists the files it would 
 delete, you have to pass it '-f' to actually remove stuff.  You can 
 also control whether you want it to deal with ignored files or not. 


I'm using gitignore like a black list, so my git ignore defines all files 
which are not allowed.
If I switch this to a white list, I need a check if everything is all 
right. git clean works only
with untracked files, but in my case I have got tracked files, which can be 
after the gitignore
changing also ignored. 
Did you have got an idea, in which way I can change my gitignores, so that 
I do not forget some files?

Phil

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Re: [git-users] gitignore change for tracked / untracked files

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:50:16AM -0800, Philipp Kraus wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I have defined a gitignore with file pattern, which should be ignored eg:
 *.tmp
 *.bak
 ...
 
 I would change the gitignore file to:
 .*
 !*.cpp
 !*.res
 
 but I would also removed tracked files, which are added to the repo if the 
 files does not match the ignore pattern.
 I would like to check the current files after changing the gitignore which 
 will not be matched and after that I will
 remove them from the repo
 
 How can I do this

I'm not 100% sure I understand what you wish to do, but you might want
to look at `git clean`.  By default it just lists the files it would
delete, you have to pass it '-f' to actually remove stuff.  You can
also control whether you want it to deal with ignored files or not.

/M

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Re: [git-users] .gitignore question

[Edwin Castro]

On 11/13/13, 6:15 AM, wtriker@gmail.com wrote:
 'someupper path/system/cache' and all start with 'cache.'

Sounds like you want to match any number of directories prior to the
system directory. Try this pattern:

**/system/cache/cache.*

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Re: [git-users] .gitignore question

[Dale R. Worley]

 From: wtriker@gmail.com
 
 I have some files that I want to ignore but can't seem to come up with the 
 correct format. There are multiple sub-directories with the same path that 
 I want to ignore. Specifically, the are 'someupper path/system/cache' and 
 all start with 'cache.'. The .gitignore entry I am using is:
 
 system/cache/cache.*
 
 But that does not work. What is the correct syntax to ignore these files? 

One solution is to put cache in each someupper
path/system/.gitignore file.

I would start by reading the rules for how gitignore entries are
interpreted, which is in the gitignore manual page.  In particular,
I see:

   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.

This suggests the answer is to put **/system/cache in the top-level
.gitignore file.

Dale

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Re: [git-users] .gitignore question

[William Seiti Mizuta]

Can you ignore all subdirectories inside cache directory? If so, just write

cache

in your .gitignore file. Git will ignore all cache directories
independently where it was. It can be in project root or inside a directory.


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Caelum | Ensino e Inovação
www.caelum.com.br


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM, wtriker@gmail.com wrote:

 I have some files that I want to ignore but can't seem to come up with the
 correct format. There are multiple sub-directories with the same path that
 I want to ignore. Specifically, the are 'someupper path/system/cache' and
 all start with 'cache.'. The .gitignore entry I am using is:

 system/cache/cache.*

 But that does not work. What is the correct syntax to ignore these files?
 TIA.

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Re: [git-users] GitIgnore Not including folders again

[Dale R. Worley]

 From: Rik Svendsen Rose rik.s.r...@gmail.com

 The folder that i want included is:
 02 Microsoft SQL Server/xxx/MSSQL/Backup
 
 
 I have tried adding into my .gitignore folder:
  
 02 Microsoft SQL Server/**/
 !02 Microsoft SQL Server/**/Backup

I don't think that Unix-style shell globs define ** to mean
anything.  Or rather, it has the same meaning as * -- any sequence
of characters not including /.

Have you tried

!02 Microsoft SQL Server/xxx/MSSQL/Backup

There are further complexities of .gitignore that you might be able to
exploit:  If the line starts with /, then the pattern must describe
the file's pathname starting from the current directory.  But if the
line does not start with /, the pattern may match starting in any
subdirectory.  Thus, including *.bak causes any file ending in
.bak to be ignored, no matter what subdirectory directory it is in.
That means that you might be able to use !MSSQL/Backup to un-ignore
the directories you are interested in.

Dale

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Re: [git-users] gitignore ignored?

[Konstantin Khomoutov]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
Mauro Sanna mrsan...@gmail.com wrote:

[...]
 When I push my commits I see target and its subdirs in the repository.
 But target is gitignored, why is it pushed?

There are several misunderstandings here:

1) Mechanisms for ignoring files in Git have nothing to do with pushing
   and fetching: these operations manipulate existing commits and
   references pointing at them.

   It's index updates (`git add`) and, in certain cases, work tree
   oprtations (`git rm`, `git clean` etc) which consider ignore lists
   (so that, say `git add '*'` won't add auto-built cruft added to
   an ignore list).

2) Mere updating of a branch in a remote repo does not do anything
   to the subdirs in the repository because such subdirs only
   occur in the work tree of a non-bare repository, and the push
   operation is not concerned about the work tree (short of respecting
   the receive.denyCurrentBranch configuration variable which forbids
   updating of a branch which is currently checked out in a non-bare
   repository).

   So it might be that if you actually *deleted* already tracked
   unwanted files and recorded a commit which does not contain them
   anymore and then arranged for them to be excluded by the Git file
   ignoring mechanism, and then updated a remote branch with your
   commit, you now need to actually update your work tree to the new
   state of the updated branch -- for instance, by doing

   git reset --hard

   in the work tree (provided the updated branch is what is currently
   checked out, -- otherwise a mere `git checkout that_branch` would
   suffice).

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Re: [git-users] .gitignore and branches issues

[Konstantin Khomoutov]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 02:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
mem talofo.l...@gmail.com wrote:

 While checkout to master branch, I got:
 
 Error: The following untracked working tree files would be
 overwritten by checkout:
 nbproject/private/config.properties
 nbproject/private/private.properties
 nbproject/private/private.xml
 nbproject/project.properties
 nbproject/project.xml 
[...]
 dev is ignoring those files. master isn't, because no .gitignore file
 is present there. Perhaps, when I was setting branches, I forgot it
 somehow...
 
 They should both ignore those files.
 
 Plus, when I push this to remote repos, those changes should be
 propagated for those remote repos as well. (I'm using a bare repo).

Since .gitignore is a part of the repository snapshot forming a commit,
it will be propagated when people check out that state.

 My question is:
 
 *How can we add that .gitignore file to the master, so that this
 doesn't happen again ?*

I'm a bit confused because the straightforward answer seems to be a
bit too easy to be serious: just check out the `master' branch,
add .gitignore file and commit or, alternatively, cherry-pick the
necessary commit(s) which dealt with .gitignore from your dev branch.

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Re: [git-users] .gitignore and branches issues

[mem]

On Sep 3, 2012, at 11:34 , Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:

 On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 02:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
 mem talofo.l...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 While checkout to master branch, I got:
 
 Error: The following untracked working tree files would be
 overwritten by checkout:
 nbproject/private/config.properties
 nbproject/private/private.properties
 nbproject/private/private.xml
 nbproject/project.properties
 nbproject/project.xml 
 [...]
 dev is ignoring those files. master isn't, because no .gitignore file
 is present there. Perhaps, when I was setting branches, I forgot it
 somehow...
 
 They should both ignore those files.
 
 Plus, when I push this to remote repos, those changes should be
 propagated for those remote repos as well. (I'm using a bare repo).
 
 Since .gitignore is a part of the repository snapshot forming a commit,
 it will be propagated when people check out that state.

Ok.

 
 My question is:
 
 *How can we add that .gitignore file to the master, so that this
 doesn't happen again ?*
 
 I'm a bit confused because the straightforward answer seems to be a
 bit too easy to be serious: just check out the `master' branch,
 add .gitignore file and commit or, alternatively, cherry-pick the
 necessary commit(s) which dealt with .gitignore from your dev branch.

Issue is solved. But thanks for your reply. 

I was enable to checkout the master branch, unless I force it:

git checkout --force master

Anyway, for the record: here's the steps I've done with help from others:

1) I have cloned the project to somewhere else.
2) I've checkout master on that clone.
3) Placed the gitignore into the master as it should have been there from the 
beginning: 
 git show dev:.gitignore  .gitignore
3) I've removed the files from the tree by doing git rm all files that where 
on gitignore one by one
4) I've added the .gitignore file to the repo.
5) commit it
6) switch back to the original repo and did:
7) git fetch /path/to/fix-project master:master
8) git checkout master, and I got:
Switched to branch 'master' 
Your branch is ahead of 'hub/master' by 1 commit.
this is my remote master branch.
9) Pushed to remote master.
10) checkout dev again


Thanks again for your reply.



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Re: [git-users] Gitignore

[Konstantin Khomoutov]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 12:13:43 -0300
Flávio Alencar flavi...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have two questions:
 
 1 - Do I have to configure the gitignore before running the first
 commit?
No. It's just a way to hide certain files from certain commands
operating on files (such as git-status or git-add).
git-commit does not operate on files and does not use .gitignore.
Moreover, Git does not need this file to be tracked.  Just some
commands see if it's there and use it if it is.

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http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.