It seems like you want the files ignored but they have already been commited. .gitignore has no effect on files that are already in the repo so they need to be removed with git rm –cached. The –cached will prevent it from having any effect on your working copy and it will just mark as removed the next … Read more
.gitkeep isn’t documented, because it’s not a feature of Git. Git cannot add a completely empty directory. People who want to track empty directories in Git have created the convention of putting files called .gitkeep in these directories. The file could be called anything; Git assigns no special significance to this name. There is a competing convention of adding … Read more
.gitignore will prevent untracked files from being added (without an add -f) to the set of files tracked by Git, however Git will continue to track any files that are already being tracked. To stop tracking a file you need to remove it from the index. This can be achieved with this command. If you want to … Read more
The files/folder in your version control will not just delete themselves just because you added them to the .gitignore. They are already in the repository and you have to remove them. You can just do that with this: Remember to commit everything you’ve changed before you do this! This removes all files from the repository and … Read more
The files/folder in your version control will not just delete themselves just because you added them to the .gitignore. They are already in the repository and you have to remove them. You can just do that with this: Remember to commit everything you’ve changed before you do this! This removes all files from the repository and … Read more
Create a file named .gitignore in your project’s directory. Ignore directories by entering the directory name into the file (with a slash appended): More information is here.