How to ignore folders / directories in GIT? Ex: .metadata, .recommenders

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How to ignore folders / directories in GIT? Ex: .metadata, .recommenders

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I have a project in .git where I believe it is necessary to skip some files. However, I put the command and the folder continues to appear in git status. I did this:

creating gitignore file

touch .gitignore

Including files / directories in .gitignore to be ignored

# ignora os arquivos com extensões 
.gitignore
# ignora quaisquer diretórios chamados "metadata"
.metadata/
.recommenders/

But when giving the git status the changes that should not appear continue to appear, as the .gitignore has disappeared from the git status but the folder keeps appearing.

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asked by anonymous 14.05.2017 / 00:13

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Only using the same gitignore. Note that if you have already added the files to the repository, you need to remove them.

git rm --cached -r /.metadata

Use the -r (recursive) argument when removing a folder and all files within it.

score 3 · Answer 2

Gitignore is just for this, create it in the root of your project with the name .gitignore and enter the code inside it.

# lembre de colocar o nome da pasta sem o ponto na frente
# Para ignorar todos arquivos e sub-pastas localizados na pasta metadata/plugins/
metadata/plugins/nome-do-plugin

# Para ignorar todos os arquivos e sub-pastas da pasta metadata/
metadata/

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