removing untacked file and directories with git/info/exclude
git, gitignore
Solution
You're leaving a blankspace before the pattern. Delete it and it should work:
# exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them):
*.[oa]
*~
server/build
If your repo doesn't have a `.gitignore` you could create one and ignore itself, too - but it really is more correct to use `exclude`, anyway.
Problem
``` git version 1.7.11.7 Fedora 17 ``` Hello, I create a new git working resposity ``` git init ``` I added some files and some directories. However, I have some files that I want to ignore based on my environment. I don't want to create a `.gitignore` file as I don't want it added to repository. Just my local. So I want to ignore my `server/build` directory so I added it to my `.git/info/exclude` file. ``` # exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them): *.[oa] *~ server/build ``` server is the root directory where I init my git resposity. However, when I do git status I always get this directory in my untacked files. ``` # On branch dev # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # server/build/ ``` I want to remove this from my git status. I have tried the following with didn't work for me ``` git rm -r --cached server/build ```