How do I remove or ignore .rb~ files from git repository?

Question

I want to remove/igonre/hide whichever is better .rb~ and .# files such as .#admin.rb.1.2 from the git repository.

How I can do this?

Currently I am doing it in following way:

  git rm -r  "/app/models/.#admin.rb.1.2"

which removes the files one by one. Then I commit.

I also created a .gitignore file with the following values which I found for Rails:

.bundle
db/*.sqlite3*
log/*.log
*.log
/tmp/
doc/
*.swp
*~
.project
.DS_Store 

But it is not ignoring the files which are already present in the directory.

Will this file ignore .rb~ backup files? What should I do so that it will remove all the files which match the expression written in .gitignore files?

Answer 1

Files which are already in git will not be ignored anymore. First you have to remove them all and then the .gitignore file is going to ignore the new ones.