Ignoring a directory from a Git repo after it's been added
git, gitignore
Solution
I was able to get this working with `git rm -r --cached bin/` (note the recursive `-r`)in the root of the repo - are you talking about finding the bin directories and untracking them?
You will have to `commit` before the exclusion is reflected.
I just saw that you were on Windows. This was in Terminal on OSX, just a heads up.
Problem
I've learned how to exclude an entire directory in git (add a line `bin/` to `.gitignore`). And I've learned how to ignore files "after the fact" (i.e. after they have been added to git): ``` git rm --cached <filename> ``` How do I ignore an entire directory (e.g. `bin/`) after it has been added to a Git repo? I tried `git rm --cached bin/` but all I received was the error: fatal: pathspec 'bin/' did not match any files When I tried (at the root directory, where .git exists) `git rm --cached MyProj/bin/` the error is different: fatal: not removing 'MyProj/bin/' recursively without -r What does this mean and will I need to commit and/or branch this now?