This time no story giving insight in to my life as a superhero developer; instead straight to the facts. When you write a .gitignore file, precede each entry with a forward slash. So instead of writing:
*.zip
You should write:
/*.zip
It means zip files only get ignored in the same directory as the .gitignore file, and not in each subdirectory. Do this on principle, and optimize later if you find it is an extension you really want ignoring project-wide. (In other words wait for the noise to appear before using .gitignore to suppress noise.)
Especially important for websites: I may have a temporary zip file in the root of the website from a designer, but deeper in the site I may have zip files that users are supposed to download.
Friday, October 28, 2011
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