Git by Examples

To untrack file changes do the following steps:

 

1. vim .gitignore

a) If you want to exclude specific file enter:

/settings/file.js

or

setings/file.js

 

b) If you want to exclude all files in directory

settings/*

 

c) if you want to exclude all files but not one file:

setings/*

!settings/file.js

 

tmp/*
tmp/sessions/*
tmp/logs/*
tmp/logs/crawler/*
tmp/logs/winston/*
exceptions.log
npm-debug.log

settings/*
!settings/main.js

 

Notice that the gitignore current folder is where is .gitignore file settled.

 

Possible problems

If .gitignore don't work as expected do the following:

1. First commit all changes or you will lose them

2. Do the commands

git rm . -r --cached
git add .
git commit -m "fixed untracked files"

 

Notice:

git-rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index