How to ignore files in git
- Many languages when we use it for coding, they will have
- binary files
- temporary files
- These files we will never add to git.
- To ignore files or directories, create a .gitignore file in teh git repository and add all the exclusions over there
- Navigate into any dummy repo (Which is created for practice)
mkdir bin
mkdir logs
# create 100 log files
touch logs/{1..100}.log
# create 100 binary files
touch bin/{1..100}.exe
touch bin/{1..100}.txt
- Execute git status
- But if we want to skip all the .log files. Create a .gitignore file and add the lines & execute git status
*.log
- Now lets ignore folders. Ensure your gitignore has the following lines & check status
#ignoring log files
*.log
# ignoring bin directories & its contents
bin/*
- There is a website that can help you generate gitignore Refer Here
Viewing Staged & Un staged Changes
- Consider the following state for your repository
- Execute git diff to view the changes of the files which are in modified state
- Now lets add only modified files to the staging area
- Lets add the changes to the staging area and view the differences in staging area (staged vs unmodified)
- To move the changes to local repo directly
- Removing the files
- Rename the files
- Moving the files
