How could I ignore bin and obj folders from git re

Question

I want to ignore bin and obj folders from my git repository. As I've found out, there is no easy way to do this in .gitignore. So, are there any other way? Using clean solution in Visual Studio?

Answer 1

simply making entry in gitignore may not ingore files, you may need to commit it. I used the following method and worked for me

git rm -r --cached .

git add .

then

git commit -am "Remove ignored files"

However this ignore my scripts folder which I included later into repository.

Answer 2

• Locate the bin and obj folders in Windows Explorer
• Right click TortoiseGit > Delete and add to ignore list > bin
• Right click TortoiseGit > Delete and add to ignore list > obj

Answer 3

I'm not sure why this doesn't work for you. In case it helps, here's a typical .gitignore file from one of my Visual Studio/git projects:

*.suo
*.user
_ReSharper.*
bin
obj
packages

Answer 4

If you want to ignore bin and obj in ALL your projects then you can use (from gitignore man page)

Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration variable core.excludesfile.

core.excludesfile can be set in a config file which is ~/.gitconfig in Unix - I don't know where it is under Windows