Git .gitignore

.gitignore

# no .a files
*.a

# but do track lib.a, even though you're ignoring .a files above
!lib.a

# only ignore the TODO file in the current directory, not subdir/TODO
/TODO

# ignore all files in the build/ directory
build/

# ignore doc/notes.txt, but not doc/server/arch.txt
doc/*.txt

# ignore all .pdf files in the doc/ directory
doc/**/*.pdf

#IF GITIGNORE IS NOT WORKING,JUST RUN:# git rm -r --cached . # git add .# git commit -m ".gitignore is now working"