Ignore file in Git
Excluding files from a git repo
Ignore file in Git
Sometimes as you are developing your project there are temporary files or data directories you want to exclude from git. Ignoring these files help to prevent the data from being checked into the repository by accident.
To ignore files, you’ll need to add a file to your folder called .gitignore
which will specify a set of rules on what to exclude. This file needs to be added to git git add .gitignore
and committed to your repository.
A .gitignore
file supports regex and uses #
as a delimiter for comments within the file.
Example gitignore file:
# exclude log files
*.log
**/*.log
If file was added to git, you will need to remove the file being tracked by git.
Example of untracking a file and keep it in your folder:
git rm --cached filename
For a more comprehensive description of how to ignore files, take a look at github’s ignorefiles page.