Cannot add .expo folder to .gitignore

Asked Feb 24 '20 at 10:30

Active Feb 24 '20 at 10:42

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I am trying to add .expo folder of my react-native (expo) project to the .gitignore file. Unfortunately, git still tracking all files within .expo folder.

.gitignore file looks like this

# Expo
.expo
.expo/web

What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE

Take a look at the comments below. They helped me to resolve the issue.

edited Feb 24 '20 at 10:42

asked Feb 24 '20 at 10:30

Roman Mahotskyi

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Have a look here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1274447/11005213 – watofundefined Feb 24 '20 at 10:34
Have these files ever been tracked in the repo? If yes, adding them to `.gitignore` now won't be enough. – Romain Valeri Feb 24 '20 at 10:34
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If the files were already tracked, you'll have to first remove them (`git rm --cached FILENAME`) to then ignore. – cristianoms Feb 24 '20 at 10:37
Thank you, guys. The `git rm -r --cached ` command worked for me. – Roman Mahotskyi Feb 24 '20 at 10:40

Cannot add .expo folder to .gitignore

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