hiding files using gitignore

Question

I want to hide the node_modules folder and a javascript file in git,for which I added the following in .gitignore file:

          node_modules/
          database.js/

After that,in git bash I added the following commands

          git rm -r --cached .
          git add .
          git commit -m "hide files"
          git push origin master

But I was able to hide only node_modules folder and not the js file.Please don't mistake me, I am a newbie to git. What is my mistake here?Can anybody help? Thank you

Answer 1

You have a trailing slash behind database.js

database.js/

It should simply be

database.js

Please refer to the documentation .