Unable ignore the eclipse setting in gitignore

Question

I am using 

/*/.settings/*

OR
/*/.settings/

to ignore eclipse setting.

abc.host.client/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs

but unable to ignore the following files.

abc.host.client/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml

abc.host.client/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component

I am using git version 1.7.1 . May I know what is the problem?Thank You.

Answer 1

Since you have added /*/.settings/* recently to .gitignore , you need to clear the cache of .gitignore .

git rm --cache .gitignore

After that commit as usual.