How to Ignore Git Folders and Directories .gitignore

Here's a quick overview of how to use the .gitignore file to ignore Git folders and directories.
There's no big trick to ignoring folder in Git. Just add the name of the folder with a trailing slash to your .gitignore file. Then, the next time you commit or push with Git, the directory will be ignored and the folder will not be part of the commit.

[@Pasdpawn]

such an easy to understand tutorial, Cameron. Thanks much

[@cameronmcnz]

Glad I could help!

[@svens3722]

thank you for not overcomplicating it and stretch it to 10 mins. thank you a lot. have a great day. you helped me a lot.

[@kayodeolanrewaju1895]

Your explanation was so concise and easy to understand. Thanks

[@TechNestHubOfficial]

excellent and good understanding technique

[@cameronmcnz]

Thanks for the kind words! I try and get right to the point.

[@marsdwarf]

Perfect explanation. Short and Sweet. Thank you!

[@cameronmcnz]

What about the thumbnail art? I think the thumbnail art is hilarious. :) Thanks so much for the kind words and the encouragement.

[@marsdwarf]

@@cameronmcnz To be honest I was a bit confused with the thumbnail. Maybe it's just me!

[@pratyushvaibhaw6170]

Most concise and to the video.

[@Xaffre]

A little bit of confusion hit me @2:52 when you said "...we don't want that target folder to be added to the git repository...". Seconds earlier it was said that we don't want anything "in" that target folder up to the server. So with that syntax "target/" does it ignore the folder itself? (as well as the contents) Thanks!

[@cameronmcnz]

Imma have to go an re-watch that...

[@ethangordon3935]

Amazing explanation my man. Thank you!

[@cameronmcnz]

Glad I could help. Lots of Git features that aren't documented too well. Happy to fill in a few gaps for a great tool!

[@AnanshGupta]

Very precise and informative video , thank you

[@bitelogger]

Hi Cameron, amazing video maybe the best explanation I have seen about this subject, question how can I make sure this ".gitignore" goes towards any new branch?

[@cameronmcnz]

It should copy over every time you branch off a piece of code that already has a gitignore.

[@soubiluv98]

Thank for the quick easy tutorial!

[@cameronmcnz]

Glad I could be of assistance. Happy Git!

[@tony355367]

Thanks !! A lot of teaching did not say to key touch .ignore

[@xXAngelmlXx]

I tried this and it's not working for me :( When I write: foldername/ it just wont ignore the folder

[@blinking_file8948]

i'm suggesting that you have already solved that issue years ago, yet i want to answer this problem nonetheless - the root of the problem may be in the file encoding, because i had an issue exactly with that and had to change UTF-16 LE to UTF-8, and exactly that fixed the problem

[@hakami1426]

What if the folder we want to ignore is already added or committed?

[@cameronmcnz]

I think if it's already in the repo you're out of luck, but I'd have to look at the docs.

[@lester_cch9877]

God bless you man, you saved my job

[@nuraybaxsl827]

Thank you for easy explanation .It helps me a lot

[@rehamalbulushi520]

Thanks for such a quick useful tutorial ;)

[@cameronmcnz]

Glad I could help. Trying to keep my tutorials quick and to the point!

[@S.Saurabh_]

I want to ignore a particular file within many files inside a folder. I specified the exact location of that file, but still it is not being ignored. What might be the reason.

[@wicaksonoleksono7327]

im panicking after trying to push 40gb asset storage accidentally, thanks man

[@cameronmcnz]

Been there, done that. Did GitHub reject the push? Normally it would unless you have a special plan. At times like that, what I often do instead of trying to fix your local repo where the big file is inside of it, just do a new clone from GitHub. Since GitHub will reject a big file, if you do a new clone you get everything from before your last push, minus a few recent changes. If you can just add those changes since the last push without the big files in your repo, you're good. Just an easier option than trying to remove things from your git history.

[@wicaksonoleksono7327]

@@cameronmcnz yeah but in log there is already a commit log, i just reset and rebase haha, but thank god its all fixed

[@cameronmcnz]

@@wicaksonoleksono7327 As long as you recovered. Now stop copying giant files into your git repo!

[@spiralni]

what about if I dont want to add content from folders inside another folders. e.g folder1/target, folder2/target...?

[@filipetrujeira3359]

The only reason nobody was looking at me was because I forgot to take the .gitignore sign off my back! Thank you!

[@germanungo9435]

Totally worked. Thanks!

[@TrySomeCG]

how do i ignore folder inside another folder? but i want to keep the parent folder, for example i have a folder called "Content" and inside content i have another folder called "CustomAssets" i want git to ignore "Custom Assets" but keep "Content" folder, how do i do it?

[@_origin5858]

did u find any solution for this ?

[@TrySomeCG]

@@_origin5858 yes, just type Content/"your folder"/*

[@_origin5858]

​@@TrySomeCG you mean Content/Parent_Folder/ Folder_to_Ignore ?

[@TrySomeCG]

@@_origin5858 yes if you have a parent folder that will work but dont forget to add "/*" in the end

[@vurkins]

Is there a way to ignore any folder but keep files? I don't know what folder name would be created by someone else

[@notjpengineer]

Amazing content, thank you!

[@fmww702]

Thank you!

[@cameronmcnz]

Happy to help!

[@rohiniraj5692]

Is that possible to ignore a set of files while raising PR request?

[@emirhandemir3872]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH :)

[@cameronmcnz]

LOL! So glad I could help you out!

[@Will_of_Iron]

Thanks.

[@cameronmcnz]

Glad I could help!

[@larkicode8704]

Thanks man!

[@cameronmcnz]

My pleasure!

[@fotoh1589]

Thanks youuuuu

[@rorygrignard9742]

Nice vid

[@jubaaissaoui5678]

Thanks

[@davidshum1938]

thanks

[@cameronmcnz]

I'm just going to ignore that comment. :)

[@ksdnsdkumar1375]

@1:51 video starts

[@cameronmcnz]

It's not like it's a long video! I try and keep all my videos fairly short.

[@lucutes2936]

meow

[@cameronmcnz]

Is that a good 'meow' or a 'bad meow?'