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How to make .gitignore ignore files?

I have a .gitignore file with the following contents:

.vs/

I run the following commands

git add .gitignore
git commit -m 'adding ignore file'

In my .vs folder, I have a text file named test.txt.

When I type git status, I see the following output

On branch master
Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

        .vs/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

What am I missing here?

Solution

  • Found my solution here (Visual Studio was adding Chinese characters to my .gitignore also)

    My .gitignore was saved with unicode encoding.

    This is because I created my .gitignore file via PowerShell like so

    ".vs/" > .gitignore

    I did this because explorer doesn't let you create a text file with a leading period. My solution:

    ".vs/" | Out-File -Encoding ascii -FilePath .gitignore