Creating directory/file name rules for .gitignore

Question

I'd like to set up some rules in my .gitignore whereby any directory or file with a name containing "_nogit" will be ignored.

Examples:

• ../videos_nogit/...
• bigvideo_nogit.mp4
• assets/_nogit/bigvideos...

Thanks--

Answer 1

If you have a line in your .gitignore file that does not have slashes in it, then git treats it like a shell glob pattern. Thus, adding *_nogit* to your .gitignore will ignore all of those files.

See also the gitignore man page.