Git - .gitignore - ignore any 39bin39 directory

Questions

I have a directory structure like this:

.git/
.gitignore
main/
  ...
tools/
  ...
...

Inside main and tools, and any other directory, at any level, there can be a bin directory, which I want to ignore (and I want to ignore everything under it too). I ve tried each of these patterns in .gitignore but none of them work:

/**/bin/**/*
/./**/bin/**/*
./**/bin/**/*
**/bin/**/*
*/bin/**/*
bin/**/*
/**/bin/* #and the others with just * at the end too

Can anyone help me out? The first pattern (the one I think should be working) works just fine if I do this:

/main/**/bin/**/*

But I don t want to have an entry for every top-level directory and I don t want to have to modify .gitignore every time I add a new one.

This is on Windows using the latest msysgit.

EDIT: one more thing, there are files and directories that have the substring bin in their names, I don t want those to be ignored :)

Answers

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt

The way to ignore all directories called bin anywhere below the current level in a directory tree is with a .gitignore file with the pattern:

bin/

In the man page, there an example of ignoring a directory called foo using an analogous pattern.

  Edit:    

If you already have any bin folders in your git index which you no longer wish to track then you need to remove them explicitly. Git won t stop tracking paths that are already being tracked just because the now match a new .gitignore pattern. Execute a folder remove ( rm ) from index only ( --cached ) recursivelly ( -r ). Command line example for root bin folder:

git rm -r --cached bin

Source

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1470572/gitignore-ignore-any-bin-directory

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