I have a project structure thus:
.git
.gitignore
Project/
----File1 (resides in Project/ folder)
.gitignore originally was empty. So, Project/ and File1 were tracked and committed into source control. Since then, I modified File1. Now, I add the following line in .gitignore:
Project/
in hopes that the entire folder Project and all of its files/subdirectories are "ignored" by git. Yet, this does not happen. git status now still responds with:
modified: Project/File1
The above is also the response with an empty .gitignore. So, it is unclear to me what the effect is of adding Project/ to .gitignore. What exactly is being ignored if git status responds similarly in both cases?
