Anyone know if it is possible to ignore all the instances of a particular directory in a file structure managed by git.
I'm looking to exclude all the 'target' folders in a maven project with a number of submodules. I know I can explicitly exclude each of them in a top level .gitignore, but I'd really like to be able to specify a pattern like **/target/* there to have it automatically ignore the instance in sub directories?
Is this possible?
The .gitignore file in the root directory does apply to all subdirectories. Mine looks like this:
.classpath
.project
.settings/
target/
This is in a multi-module maven project. All the submodules are imported as individual eclipse projects using m2eclipse. I have no further .gitignore files. Indeed, if you look in the gitignore man page:
Patterns read from a
.gitignorefile in the same directory as the path, or in any parent directory…
So this should work for you.
It is possible to use patterns in a .gitignore file. See the gitignore man page. The pattern */target/* should ignore any directory named target and anything under it. Or you may try */target/** to ignore everything under target.
add following lines in gitignore, from all undesirable files
/target/
*/target/**
**/META-INF/
!.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
### STS ###
.apt_generated
.classpath
.factorypath
.project
.settings
.springBeans
.sts4-cache
### IntelliJ IDEA ###
.idea
*.iws
*.iml
*.ipr
### NetBeans ###
/nbproject/private/
/build/
/nbbuild/
/dist/
/nbdist/
/.nb-gradle/
I ignore all classes residing in target folder from git. add following line in open .gitignore file:
/.class
OR
*/target/**
It is working perfectly for me. try it.
For the Spring Tool Suite, Add the following ignore resources to .gitignore file and commit into the repository
*.classpath
*.class
*.prefs
*.jar
*.lst
*.project
*.factorypath
*.original
target/
.settings/
.apt_generated
.sts4-cache
.springBeans