I have a file structure like this
master is:
~/Exercism/javascript
exercise files are:
~/Exercism/javascript/hello-world
~/Exercism/javascript/protein-translation
~/Exercism/javascript/resistor-color
...etc
EACH one of these folders has a node_modules folder that I want to ignore
My .gitignore file is located in:
~/Exercism/javascript
content of .gitignore:
**/node_modules/
git still won’t ignore the node_modules folders. Is there something I need to run in git? Is my folder in the right place>
I have not committed anything yet but the repo is initiated
You can simply specify it as
node_modules/
in the .gitignore file and it will traverse through your parent folder as well as subfolders and ignore all directories callednode_modules
in each of your subfolders, as opposed to having to specify .gitignore files in each of your subdirectories.Hope this helps you. Good day!
Every folder should have a different
.gitignore
file, since all of those folders are different projects.The fact that makes them different projects is that each of them have a different
node_modules
folder.Change
.gitignore
content toand put a copy in every folder.