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Posted by ammarkhan
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ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points

Uploading .gitignore to repo

Hi, I made a .gitignore like this https://github.com/mahassan/gitignore but i don't know how to upload it to my repo. so it ignore these files.Can anyone help?

2 Answers

Jeff Wilton
Jeff Wilton
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Jeff Wilton
Jeff Wilton
16,646 Points

Assuming you are properly connected to your remote branch, it is the same as adding any other new file:

git add .gitignore

Then commit as usual:

git commit -m "adding .gitignore file" .gitignore
ammarkhan
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ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points

It tells me "Nothing to commit", can you step ways from connecting to last one?

Erik S.
Erik S.
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Erik S.
Erik S.
9,789 Points

Hi Ammar, What output do you get when you run:

git status .gitignore
ammarkhan
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ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points

Erik Schmok Hi, i get the following message "On branch master nothing to commit, working directory clean"