.gitignore isn't ignoring files in certain fol

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I have a .gitignore file.

One of my declarations is

**/bin/Debug/ **/obj/Debug/

But it's still picking up these files

Answer 1

You need to tell git to remove the from the repository first.

git rm --cached bin/Debug
git rm --cached obj/Debug

Then commit changes.