Git Ignore

How to Exclude Files and Folders during Commit and Push

Removal of Metadata folders of IDE
For Example - IntelliJ IDEA generates .idea folder, Eclipse IDE generates metadata, bin folders, and in many such scenarios

Steps:
- Locate the local repository of the project in which Git is initialised and if not, initialise it.
- Look for .gitignore file in the same repository.
- Add the filesname or folders names to exclude with their path.
- User wild card character ( * ) for multiple files of same file type.
For Example :

.idea
target/ 
*.im; 
*.iml

Git will automatically ignore these files and folders from Staging or Commiting or Pushing.
Proceed with the normal way of Staging, Commiting and Pushing.
To ignore all .a files - .a
but do track lib.a, even though you're ignoring .a files above - !lib.a
only ignore the TODO file in the current directory, not subdir/TODO - /TODO
ignore all files in any directory named build - build/
ignore doc/notes.txt, but not doc/server/arch.txt - doc/*.txt
ignore all .pdf files in the doc/ directory and any of its subdirectories - doc/**/*.pdf

Steps:
- First, be in local respository of the project in which Git is initialised and if not, initialise it.

git pull RemoteRepoLink
git rm -rf folder-name

r stands for Recurrsively

f stands for Forcefully

git commit -m "commit message"
git remote add origin RemoteRepoLink
git push -u origin master