.gitignore 中的隐藏文件夹

Question

I have a hidden folder /.idea from the IDE that I want to ignore. I have followed the patter of https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/JetBrains.gitignore but it is not being ignored.

// .gitignore

# See https://help.github.com/ignore-files/ for more about ignoring files.

# dependencies
/node_modules
package-lock.json
**/node_modules

# testing
/coverage

# production
/build

# Things that I have tried
.idea/
/.idea/
.idea/**

What would be the way to ignore it?

Answer 1

If you already commited your .idea folder you need to remove it from git index

git rm --cached .idea

The correct way to ignore a folder inside your .gitignore file is the following

.idea/