TortoiseGit: add to ignore already commited gen and bin folder

git, gitignore, tortoisegit

Solution

For untracking + ignoring files, you do:

$ git rm -r --cached gen/ bin/
$ echo "gen/" >> .gitignore
$ echo "bin/" >> .gitignore

`git rm --cached` removes the file from the index, without changing the file in the working copy. So now git doesn't track it, but you still have it in your local folder.

Problem

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