Question

I’ve read solutions from other questions git ignore files, but I still can’t get it to work.

So here’s what I’ve done:

1. created .gitignore_global file.
2. added .mp3 .mp4 .oog .wmv .wma then saved.
3. executed this command :

git config --global core.excludesfile .gitignore_global

but when i commit it still adds my mp3 files. I even tried git rm -r --cached . then git add . to clear the cache, but even after that it still adds it back. what I’m I missing here?

Answer 1

Can you try adding to .gitignore_global the following line :

# Audio files #
###############

*.mp3 
*.mp4 
*.oog 
*.wmv 
*.wma

See documentation Ignoring-files.