how to ignore a directory and its sub-directories in gitignore

Question

I want to ignore public folder and its inside folders and file in git

public/app
public/dist/file.html
public/dist/bower_components/
public/dist/fonts/
public/dist/scripts/

i want to ignore all of them and their inside files i followed this link Add newly created specific folder to .gitignore in Git

I am doing it like this in .gitignore file

public/app/*
public/dist//*
public/dist/bower_components/*
public/dist/fonts/*
public/dist/scripts/

but its not working ,i can stil see these files on git status

Answer 1

忽略/public/ （斜杠前和后，没有星号）。

Answer 2

First verify git status if you have already add this folders. If you was add, try to remove them git rm -r --cached directory .

Next put only public/* in .gitignore to ignore all file in public's folder.