Why is .gitignore not working when I use git add *?

.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ height:90px;width:728px;box-sizing:border-box;
}

To satisfy github 100Mb requirement, I run the following to ignore some large files:

$ find ./* -size +100M | cat >> .gitignore

but when I run add * later, it is still adding the >100MB file to commit.

$ git add *

warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in hw1/input/act_test.csv.

The file will have its original line endings in your working directory

How can I make this gitignore work?
Thanks in advance for ideas and advices.

add:
my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, following answer does not seem to work.

edited Nov 30 '18 at 1:38

asked Nov 29 '18 at 3:57

Pythoner

2,33611629

1

Are you sure you want to use ./* instead of .? That'll add everything except what's in the root folder.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:23

Also, have some of these files already been committed? If so, you will need to purge them. You can't alter past history with just ignore and commit.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:25

1

Possible duplicate of How to make Git "forget" about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:37

stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/…

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:38

@MadPhysicist, yes, I used add * to keep my project updated, then I can access it anywhere, I am the main contributor, so call add * often to keep it updated.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:40

add a comment |

To satisfy github 100Mb requirement, I run the following to ignore some large files:

$ find ./* -size +100M | cat >> .gitignore

but when I run add * later, it is still adding the >100MB file to commit.

$ git add *

warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in hw1/input/act_test.csv.

The file will have its original line endings in your working directory

How can I make this gitignore work?
Thanks in advance for ideas and advices.

add:
my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, following answer does not seem to work.

edited Nov 30 '18 at 1:38

asked Nov 29 '18 at 3:57

Pythoner

2,33611629

1

Are you sure you want to use ./* instead of .? That'll add everything except what's in the root folder.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:23

Also, have some of these files already been committed? If so, you will need to purge them. You can't alter past history with just ignore and commit.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:25

1

Possible duplicate of How to make Git "forget" about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:37

stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/…

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:38

@MadPhysicist, yes, I used add * to keep my project updated, then I can access it anywhere, I am the main contributor, so call add * often to keep it updated.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:40

add a comment |

To satisfy github 100Mb requirement, I run the following to ignore some large files:

$ find ./* -size +100M | cat >> .gitignore

but when I run add * later, it is still adding the >100MB file to commit.

$ git add *

warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in hw1/input/act_test.csv.

The file will have its original line endings in your working directory

How can I make this gitignore work?
Thanks in advance for ideas and advices.

add:
my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, following answer does not seem to work.

edited Nov 30 '18 at 1:38

asked Nov 29 '18 at 3:57

Pythoner

2,33611629

To satisfy github 100Mb requirement, I run the following to ignore some large files:

$ find ./* -size +100M | cat >> .gitignore

but when I run add * later, it is still adding the >100MB file to commit.

$ git add *

warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in hw1/input/act_test.csv.

The file will have its original line endings in your working directory

How can I make this gitignore work?
Thanks in advance for ideas and advices.

add:
my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, following answer does not seem to work.

git gitignore ignore

edited Nov 30 '18 at 1:38

asked Nov 29 '18 at 3:57

Pythoner

2,33611629

edited Nov 30 '18 at 1:38

asked Nov 29 '18 at 3:57

Pythoner

2,33611629

edited Nov 30 '18 at 1:38

asked Nov 29 '18 at 3:57

Pythoner

2,33611629

asked Nov 29 '18 at 3:57

Pythoner

2,33611629

asked Nov 29 '18 at 3:57

Pythoner

2,33611629

1

Are you sure you want to use ./* instead of .? That'll add everything except what's in the root folder.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:23

Also, have some of these files already been committed? If so, you will need to purge them. You can't alter past history with just ignore and commit.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:25

1

Possible duplicate of How to make Git "forget" about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:37

stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/…

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:38

@MadPhysicist, yes, I used add * to keep my project updated, then I can access it anywhere, I am the main contributor, so call add * often to keep it updated.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:40

add a comment |

1

Are you sure you want to use ./* instead of .? That'll add everything except what's in the root folder.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:23

Also, have some of these files already been committed? If so, you will need to purge them. You can't alter past history with just ignore and commit.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:25

1

Possible duplicate of How to make Git "forget" about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:37

stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/…

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:38

@MadPhysicist, yes, I used add * to keep my project updated, then I can access it anywhere, I am the main contributor, so call add * often to keep it updated.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:40

Are you sure you want to use ./* instead of .? That'll add everything except what's in the root folder.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:23

Also, have some of these files already been committed? If so, you will need to purge them. You can't alter past history with just ignore and commit.

– Mad Physicist
Nov 29 '18 at 4:25

Possible duplicate of How to make Git "forget" about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:37

stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/…

– phd
Nov 29 '18 at 7:38

@MadPhysicist, yes, I used add * to keep my project updated, then I can access it anywhere, I am the main contributor, so call add * often to keep it updated.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:40

add a comment |

2 Answers
2

active

oldest

votes

Previously added files are not affected by, adding them later to gitignore. Take a backup of the files and delete the files locally and commit them. So, that they are not tracked by git. Now, Paste back the files to the original place and you can add the bigger filenames to gitignore. Now, git will not be tracking them, as they are considered fresh files.

Another way is to use, as suggested by @alfunx, git rm --cached <file>. The file will be removed from cache(index) and once you commit, the file will not be tracked anymore. You can also update .gitignore accordingly to avoid any further tracking of the file.

Read more about it in gitignore documentation

A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git
should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected; see the
NOTES below for details.

[...]

NOTES

The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files not
tracked by Git remain untracked.

To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use git rm --cached.

edited Nov 29 '18 at 11:31

answered Nov 29 '18 at 4:07

Venkataraman R

1,7441020

Thanks for your answer, but my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, this does not seem to work, when I call add *, it adds back the large file again.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:39

1

Your shell expands * to a list of every file in the directory, so Git sees every file listed explicitly. If you want git to check the directory contents for ignore processing, feed it the directory, use git add . (a dot). edit: ignore processing is to stop git auto-adding files, not to stop you adding them explicitly.

– jthill
Nov 30 '18 at 1:51

add a comment |

Rather than ignore the file (often I will add it back by calling add . method in later time), there is a better way to resolve the issue, git lfs, see my usage below, this will help to push the large files to github.

 $git lfs install

 $git lfs track "*.csv"

 $git add .gitattributes

 $git add act_train.csv

 $git commit -m "test lfs"

 $git push

Done

answered Nov 30 '18 at 1:29

Pythoner

2,33611629

add a comment |

Your Answer

StackExchange.ifUsing("editor", function () {
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function () {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function () {
StackExchange.snippets.init();
});
});
}, "code-snippets");

StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "1"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});

function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});

}
});

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f53531624%2fwhy-is-gitignore-not-working-when-i-use-git-add%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

2 Answers
2

active

oldest

votes

2 Answers
2

active

oldest

votes

Read more about it in gitignore documentation

A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git
should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected; see the
NOTES below for details.

[...]

NOTES

The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files not
tracked by Git remain untracked.

To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use git rm --cached.

edited Nov 29 '18 at 11:31

answered Nov 29 '18 at 4:07

Venkataraman R

1,7441020

Thanks for your answer, but my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, this does not seem to work, when I call add *, it adds back the large file again.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:39

1

Your shell expands * to a list of every file in the directory, so Git sees every file listed explicitly. If you want git to check the directory contents for ignore processing, feed it the directory, use git add . (a dot). edit: ignore processing is to stop git auto-adding files, not to stop you adding them explicitly.

– jthill
Nov 30 '18 at 1:51

add a comment |

Read more about it in gitignore documentation

A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git
should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected; see the
NOTES below for details.

[...]

NOTES

The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files not
tracked by Git remain untracked.

To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use git rm --cached.

edited Nov 29 '18 at 11:31

answered Nov 29 '18 at 4:07

Venkataraman R

1,7441020

Thanks for your answer, but my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, this does not seem to work, when I call add *, it adds back the large file again.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:39

1

Your shell expands * to a list of every file in the directory, so Git sees every file listed explicitly. If you want git to check the directory contents for ignore processing, feed it the directory, use git add . (a dot). edit: ignore processing is to stop git auto-adding files, not to stop you adding them explicitly.

– jthill
Nov 30 '18 at 1:51

add a comment |

Read more about it in gitignore documentation

A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git
should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected; see the
NOTES below for details.

[...]

NOTES

The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files not
tracked by Git remain untracked.

To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use git rm --cached.

edited Nov 29 '18 at 11:31

answered Nov 29 '18 at 4:07

Venkataraman R

1,7441020

Read more about it in gitignore documentation

A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git
should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected; see the
NOTES below for details.

[...]

NOTES

The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files not
tracked by Git remain untracked.

To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use git rm --cached.

edited Nov 29 '18 at 11:31

answered Nov 29 '18 at 4:07

Venkataraman R

1,7441020

edited Nov 29 '18 at 11:31

answered Nov 29 '18 at 4:07

Venkataraman R

1,7441020

answered Nov 29 '18 at 4:07

Venkataraman R

1,7441020

answered Nov 29 '18 at 4:07

Venkataraman R

1,7441020

Thanks for your answer, but my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, this does not seem to work, when I call add *, it adds back the large file again.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:39

1

Your shell expands * to a list of every file in the directory, so Git sees every file listed explicitly. If you want git to check the directory contents for ignore processing, feed it the directory, use git add . (a dot). edit: ignore processing is to stop git auto-adding files, not to stop you adding them explicitly.

– jthill
Nov 30 '18 at 1:51

add a comment |

Thanks for your answer, but my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, this does not seem to work, when I call add *, it adds back the large file again.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:39

1

Your shell expands * to a list of every file in the directory, so Git sees every file listed explicitly. If you want git to check the directory contents for ignore processing, feed it the directory, use git add . (a dot). edit: ignore processing is to stop git auto-adding files, not to stop you adding them explicitly.

– jthill
Nov 30 '18 at 1:51

Thanks for your answer, but my intent is to make add * not track the large csv file any more, this does not seem to work, when I call add *, it adds back the large file again.

– Pythoner
Nov 30 '18 at 1:39

Your shell expands * to a list of every file in the directory, so Git sees every file listed explicitly. If you want git to check the directory contents for ignore processing, feed it the directory, use git add . (a dot). edit: ignore processing is to stop git auto-adding files, not to stop you adding them explicitly.

– jthill
Nov 30 '18 at 1:51

add a comment |

 $git lfs install

 $git lfs track "*.csv"

 $git add .gitattributes

 $git add act_train.csv

 $git commit -m "test lfs"

 $git push

Done

answered Nov 30 '18 at 1:29

Pythoner

2,33611629

add a comment |

 $git lfs install

 $git lfs track "*.csv"

 $git add .gitattributes

 $git add act_train.csv

 $git commit -m "test lfs"

 $git push

Done

answered Nov 30 '18 at 1:29

Pythoner

2,33611629

add a comment |

 $git lfs install

 $git lfs track "*.csv"

 $git add .gitattributes

 $git add act_train.csv

 $git commit -m "test lfs"

 $git push

Done

answered Nov 30 '18 at 1:29

Pythoner

2,33611629

 $git lfs install

 $git lfs track "*.csv"

 $git add .gitattributes

 $git add act_train.csv

 $git commit -m "test lfs"

 $git push

Done

answered Nov 30 '18 at 1:29

Pythoner

2,33611629

answered Nov 30 '18 at 1:29

Pythoner

2,33611629

answered Nov 30 '18 at 1:29

Pythoner

2,33611629

answered Nov 30 '18 at 1:29

Pythoner

2,33611629

add a comment |

draft saved

draft discarded

Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!

Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!

But avoid …

Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.

Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.

To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Name

Required, but never shown

Name

Required, but never shown

This page is only for reference, If you need detailed information, please check here

搜尋此網誌

Btukfyl