Git: How to ignore files on Windows?

Question

I create .gitignore in folder with my repository near .git

project
--.git
--.gitignore
--Source
----tmp
----scr

But git doesn t see it, wouldn t ignore files in .gitignore

My .gitignore file:

*.tmp
*~
*.pdb
*.user
*.suo
Sources/tmp

What`s wrong?

Up: I created new repositiry, add .gitignore before init commit - it work! But if I add in old repository it doesn`t...

Answer 1

The problem is that you're specifying glob syntax when the default syntax for git is regex.

Try this instead:

.*\.tmp
.*~
.*\.pdb
.*\.user
.*\.suo
Sources\/tmp

Answer 2

What you have should work, though your directory listing has Source/ while your .gitignore has Sources/ .

The one thing that springs to mind is that the line endings might not be what git is expecting.

Also, as tmp is a directory, usually a trailing '/' is used:

Source/tmp/

Finally, you can also create a .gitignore in Source/ with the line:

tmp/ instead of having it in the top directory.