.gitignore file not working properly

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1

Hi there,

I’ve been facing few issues working with git. I’m totally unable to exclude whole content from either /runtime or /vendor folders. Here’s how my .gitignore file looks:


# phpstorm project files

.idea


# netbeans project files

nbproject


# zend studio for eclipse project files

.buildpath

.project

.settings


# windows thumbnail cache

Thumbs.db


# composer vendor dir

/vendor

# cubrid install dir

/cubrid


# composer itself is not needed

composer.phar


# composer.lock in applications is ignored 


since it's automatically created by 


composer when application is installed

/apps/*/composer.lock


# Mac DS_Store Files

.DS_Store


# phpunit itself is not needed

phpunit.phar

# local phpunit config

/phpunit.xml


# ignore sub directory for dev installed 


apps and extensions

/apps

/extensions


#custom

/runtime/

/web

Any thoughts about what I’m missing?

2

I understand that nothing from here helped?

3

After you modify the .gitignore file you will need to update your cache file to stop tracking the files.

Run these commands to pull them from the cache: (the files will not be deleted)

git rm --cached /vendor

git rm --cached /runtime

If those directories are empty then .gitignore won’t work, there needs to be at least on file in the directory before git will obey your requests.

4

I tried running those commands, but it throws an error saying they are already outside of the repository and the directories keep being tracked thuough.

5

When you doing


/file

inside of .gitignore it will search /file near of .gitignore file. to ignore all runtime folders inside all project you need to assign


runtime/

instead of


/runtime/
6

Have already modified the .gitignore so here´s how it looks:


# phpstorm project files

.idea


# netbeans project files

nbproject


# zend studio for eclipse project files

.buildpath

.project

.settings


# windows thumbnail cache

Thumbs.db


# composer vendor dir

vendor/

# cubrid install dir

/cubrid


# composer itself is not needed

composer.phar


# composer.lock in applications is ignored since it's automatically created by composer when application is installed

/apps/*/composer.lock


# Mac DS_Store Files

.DS_Store


# phpunit itself is not needed

phpunit.phar

# local phpunit config

/phpunit.xml


# ignore sub directory for dev installed apps and extensions

/apps

/extensions


#custom

runtime/

web/

However the files keep tracked…

7

Simply rename the folders and see what Git has to say.

You can then name them back again.

8

Sorry for the late answer, what folders dou you mean?

Thanks

9

Runtime and vendor, obviously.

10

Don´t know why but after a lot of tries it worked. Thanks!