gitignore globbing or RE?

Question

I have a little trouble with some auto generated binary files in my project.

So, I have 2 questions:

1)Does gitignore ( the file from a git repository which says which files should not be tracked) uses globbing or regular expressions ?

2)FOr files that are included in gitignore, but are already tracked, do they become untracked ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 09 '12 at 18:03

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gitignore uses globs. This page should give you all the details.

Also, to ignore uncommitted changes in a file that is already tracked, use git update-index --assume-unchanged.

edited Sep 09 '12 at 18:03

Alex Brown

answered Sep 09 '12 at 18:01

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