.gitignore fails to ignore a file

Question

I have a file, foo.php and it is located inside the bar foler, which is in the root folder of the project.

It was recently deleted by mistake, but I have re-created it, its path inside the folder is bar/foo.php

I have a row in .gitignore , stating that:

bar/foo.php

The path is correct, but if I run a

git status

the file is shown as a new file. How can I ignore it, if .gitignore fails to ignore it in its current version?

I am developing under Windows 7.

Thanks for any input.

Answer 1

Did you stage it for commit before you added it to the .gitignore file?

Try the following command:

git rm --cached bar/foo.php

After that it should not be showing anymore when you run a git status if it is in the .gitignore correctly.

Answer 2

The File : bar/foo.php

Might still be in the git indexing. You can remove it from indexing by:

git rm --cached bar/foo.php