How to ignore simulator files for Xamarin in .gitignore?

Question

I have been banging my head on the wall every time I load up my project in an actual iPhone device I would get a list of simulator files in my git. (shown below)

I thought that by adding the whole folder of ExWU.iOS/bin/IPhone/Debug it should ignore the whole folder as a whole. Is there anything else I need to do to ignore all these files?

Answer 1

They're listed as changed files, meaning they're already tracked by git. The ignore file should prevent additional files in that directory from being tracked but you'll need to delete the already tracked files from HEAD if you don't want them to show up in git status. You can do that with:

git rm --cached ExWU.iOS/bin/IPhone/Debug/*
git commit -m <commit-message>