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I have a solution with two projects in VS 2015, and I want to remove the obj and bin directories from version control.

From the beginning, my .gitignore has the following:

[Dd]ebug/
[Rr]elease/
[Bb]in/
[Oo]bj/
*.obj
*.exe

When I follow the advice in this question and this one and this one, the files are removed.

But the next time I compile, they are added to the project again.
What am I doing wrong, and how can I get rid of those directories permanently?

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To be clear, the question relates to the git interface offered within VS2015.

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...obj and bin directories from

you have to specify it as folders (starting with the /)

**/[Bb]in/
**/[Oo]bj/

I have created a bin folder and then added it to the .gitignore as showed above. As you can see the changes are in the .gitconfig in which i added the changes but bin folder is not in the status anymore.

Here are the results: enter image description here

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  • That is not correct, the syntax OP is using works fine. ** annotation just makes git ignore the folders in any depth, not just the same folder where the .gitignore file is.
    – 1615903
    Commented Mar 15, 2016 at 7:30
  • Where do you see ** in the OP? there is only *.obj in the question
    – CodeWizard
    Commented Mar 15, 2016 at 16:31
  • I did not say that there is ** in the original post.
    – 1615903
    Commented Mar 16, 2016 at 5:30
  • This is incorrect. The trailing / is used to identify a folder. The leading / just makes .gitignore look in the root folder for the given folder name, thush adding **/ is the same as not using anything leading at all.
    – Filipe Madureira
    Commented Dec 3, 2019 at 11:06
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After committing on the command line, the problem seems to have gone away. I'm not sure that this is the answer. I am fairly sure that Visual Studio does all sorts of things behind the scenes with git. Is there any documentation of how the VS front-end for git works?

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    you never said in the question that you're not using the command line. This is relevant information to be added to the question itself.
    – eis
    Commented Apr 4, 2016 at 7:59

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