gitignore - how to ignore .idea/ directory for rubymine

Question

I've placed .idea/ in both my ~/.gitignore_global and in my projects specific .gitignore file (and committed the later) but I still see the file as unstaged.

How can I really ignore these files?

I've done this:

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global 

but it didn't help.

the filename is ok:

$ ls ~/.gitignore_global
/home/durrantm/.gitignore_global

Answer 1

These files are added into the git repository already. Do the git rm --cached .idea then commit.

Answer 2

Maybe you also have to run a filter-branch, to completely wipe out the folder of your entire repository. On github you'll find a handy documentation for that thing.

Answer 3

尝试git update-index --assume-unchanged