gitignore does not ignore folder
This solved it
I had done echo node_modules >> .gitignore and it didn't work.
the windows terminal from saves the file in UCS-2 LE BOM and git doesn't seem to accept that.
I opened the file with Notepad and saved with UTF-8 encoding
It Works now.
I think they need to fix this since echo "filetoignore" >> .gitignore actually seems a handy thing to do
For me, the accepted answer was part of the solution, not the entire solution. Maybe, the other steps that I'm about to post were obvious, but I missed them first. Here's the steps I took to ensure my .gitignore file ignored the folder I wanted it to ignore:
- Commit any changes that you need to fix/change.
- Run this command:
git rm -r --cached .(which removes everything from the git index in order to refresh your git repository) - Then run this command:
git add .(to add everything back to the repo) - Finally, commit these changes using
git commit -m ".gitignore Fixed"
You can find the link to the article from where I found the solution here.
I'm guessing this folder has been checked into git before?
Run git rm -r --cached <folder> and check again.