Ignoring Files and Folders in Git

Hold on Cowboy

This blog post is pretty old. Be careful with the information you find in here. The Times They Are A-Changin'

Just a hint, it’s a lot easier than Subversion. My love for Subversion grows colder each day.

In your repository root directory you’ll want to create a file called .gitignore. In that file you’ll want to specify files and folders to ignore. For example.

Ignore the entire Magento

/media

folder. media/**/*

The root repository .gitignore file will act as a global but can be overridden in subdirectories by creating a

.gitignore

in those directories.

A Gotcha!

Empty directories do not get tracked by Git. If you want them to be tracked, they need to have something in them. Usually doing a touch .gitignore is enough to keep the folder tracked.

This one stumped me for a little bit, anyway, it pays to read.

Credit: http://www.gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/19/ignoring-files.html http://github.com/guides/ignore-for-git