How To Ignore Files From Repository?
Table Of Contents:
- What Is GIT Ignore?
- How To Ignore Files In GIT.
- Examples Of GIT Ignore.
(1) What Is GIT Ignore ?
- Sometimes you don’t want some of the files to be tracked by the GIT.
- These files you generated may be for demo or testing purposes only.
- These files may only for your reference purpose only.
- Then you can ignore those files so that they won’t be tracked by the GIT.
(2) How To Ignore Files In GIT ?
- ‘.gitignore’ file is used to ignore files from your repository.
- You need to mention the file names inside the ‘.gitignore‘, so that GIT will ignore those files.
- The ‘.gitignore’ file is placed in the root folder of the repository.
- There is no explicit git ignore command; instead, the .gitignore file must be edited and committed by hand when you have new files that you wish to ignore.
Step-1: Create The .gitignore File
- Create a file named .gitignore if you do not have it already in your directory.
- To create a file, use the command touch or cat. It will use as follows:
touch .gitignore Or
cat .gitignore 
Step-2: Add The Files Names Which You Want To Ignore.
- Now, add the files and directories to the .gitignore file that you want to ignore.
- To add the files and directory to the .gitignore file, open the file and type the file name, directory name, and pattern to ignore files and directories.
Step-3: Commit The ‘.gitignore’ File
- Now, GIT to know what are files and folders to be ignored, you have to commit the ‘.gitignore’ file.
- If you check the status, you will see, The ‘.gitignore’ file is untracked.
git status
- We have to add the ‘.gitignore’ file to the staging area and then commit it.
git add .gitignore
git commit -m 'Commiting The .gitignore File'
Conclusion:
- If you check the status, you can see that the ‘demo.txt’ file is not tracked by the GIT.
