Git Ignore common directories in subprojects

There are multiple git projects (using springboot) under one larger project.

ContainerProject
-.gitignore
  Subproj1/
   -.gitignore
   -target/ 
  Subproj2
   -.gitignore
   -target/ 
 ....

I need to ignore the target folder in all the projects within the .gitignore for the umbrella project. I tried

**/target/
**/target
**/target/*

But none seems to be working for me. git status for the container project still lists changes from these target folders in the sub projects.

Solution

Simply do this in your .gitignore:

target

It should work!

Example:

I've above entry (target) in the .gitignore in the following sample tree:

Test
- .gitignore
- abc
  - target/a.txt
  - xyz
    - target/a.txt
- test
  - target/a.txt

Using git status or from Git GUI, the target directory entries are not visible.