Version-Control-Git-Teaching-Notes

6.6 Log Files

You wrote a script that creates many intermediate log-files of the form log_01, log_02, log_03, etc. You want to keep them but you do not want to track them through git.

1. Write one .gitignore entry that excludes files of the form log_01, log_02, etc.
2. Test your “ignore pattern” by creating some dummy files of the form log_01, etc.
3. You find that the file log_01 is very important after all, add it to the tracked files without changing the .gitignore again.
4. Discuss with your neighbor what other types of files could reside in your directory that you do not want to track and thus would exclude via .gitignore.

Solution

1. append either log_* or log* as a new entry in your .gitignore
2. track log_01 using git add -f log_01

Episode 7 Exercise 1