Re: ignoring files/directories in git

mwolfe38 wrote:

I just thought that I would add that the reason is a bug in the 1.5.4.3
version that I am using which is the ubuntu 8.04 repository version.
According to some developers, the current version should fix this issue.

[Please don't top-post]

I have 1.6.0.1 I compiled here, and it has the same problem. So it is
a very recent fix

mwolfe38 wrote:

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I'm working on a project by myself and using git mostly just to learn
about it.
In my project I have several directories I want to have git ignore. One of
them being
cache/ and the other log/
I've added them to the .gitignore file which I have in the initial
directory of the repository
The contents of my gitignore are:

.settings
.cache
cache/
log/
.project

However, if I do 
git add .
It will add the files from cache and log anyways.
I know git add . will add anything that hasn't been added but shouldn't it
ignore files in .gitignore?
If not, what is the point, I would just ignore them manually anyways. 
The main reason i like doing git add .
is because i'm using symfony php framework which makes good use of scripts
which generates lots if initial files for you and thus adding one at a
time would be a pain.

Any idea what might be going on here?  I thought maybe I had added those
directories before putting them in .gitignore so i used git rm -r to
remove them but they still show back up with doing git add .

Thanks in advance

Boaz