How to .gitignore files recursively
GitGitignoreGit Problem Overview
I'm trying to avoid the following pattern in my .gitignore file.
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*.js
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*/*.js
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*/*/*.js
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*/*/*/*.js
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*/*/*/*/*.js
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*/*/*/*/*/*.js
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*/*/*/*/*/*/*.js
We tried:
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/**.js
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/**/*.js
This however didn't work. This is git on Windows. Is there a more concise way to do this without repeating things?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
As of git 1.8.2, this:
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/**/*.js
Should work according to this answer. It also works for me in Windows 7 using Sourcetree 1.6.12.0 and the version of git that it installs (1.8.4-preview20130916).
To gitignore every file and folder under a directory recursively:
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/**
Solution 2 - Git
Following gitignore manual page:
> [...] 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 match a / in the pathname.
So, this clearly stands that there is no way to specify a certain amount of directories between two strings, like between special and js.
Nevertheless, you can have a .gitignore file per directory, so maybe in your case the following content
*.js
at the following place
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/.gitignore
would be sufficient?
Solution 3 - Git
This works for me in on osx.
lib64/**/__pycache__/
lib/**/__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
.ipynb_checkpoints/
**/.ipynb_checkpoints/
.DS_Store
**/.DS_Store
Solution 4 - Git
Try executing git rm -r --cached MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/
Your mentioned directory might have been cached by git and will show up on untracked files.
After clearing the cache make sure you have it mentioned on .gitignore.