Question

I was working on a vistual studio c/C++ project which was not under any version control, All the files were in a my-project directory,

I thought it’s time to put it under version control , I copied a .gitignore file my project folder and opened git bash navigated to project directory and did

  git init
  git add .

Assuming it would obey the .gitignore file. What happened is it has stage all of my files disregarding the .gitignore file so all files under debug folder , release folder obj files etc are all staged

my .gitignore looks like this, template was taken from a wiki answer on stackoverflow about visual studio project git ignore template.

Can you help how to unstage all the files and make them filtered through gitignore ??

#OS junk files
[Tt]humbs.db
*.DS_Store

#Visual Studio files
*.[Oo]bj
*.user
*.aps
*.pch
*.vspscc
*.vssscc
*_i.c
*_p.c
*.ncb
*.suo
*.tlb
*.tlh
*.bak
*.[Cc]ache
*.ilk
*.log
*.lib
*.sbr
*.sdf
*.opensdf
*.unsuccessfulbuild
ipch/
obj/
[Bb]in
[Dd]ebug*/
[Rr]elease*/
Ankh.NoLoad

#MonoDevelop
*.pidb
*.userprefs

#Tooling
_ReSharper*/
*.resharper
[Tt]est[Rr]esult*
*.sass-cache

#Project files
[Bb]uild/

#Subversion files
.svn

# Office Temp Files
~$*

#NuGet
packages/

#ncrunch
*ncrunch*
*crunch*.local.xml

# visual studio database projects
*.dbmdl

#Test files
*.testsettings

Answer 1

After you get the right .gitignore file with the correct encoding at the right place, you can type:

git rm --cached -r .

Then add all the files again :

git add .