I use etckeeper for changes in my configfiles (on debian squeeze)Since I also have an ircdeamon running, there are some files, that change every minute in the folder/etc/hybserv/I don't want to version control them anymore, so i added hybserv/*to the end of/etc/.gitignorebut they are not ignored! They keep showing up every hour in the hourly commit.what am I doing wrong?
Excluding files in etckeeper with .gitignore doesn't work
git;etc
You need to delete (=unregister) them from git.Use something like cd /etcgit rm --cached hybserv/*git commit -m Remove hybserv/* files from gitNote the --cached option. With it, the files are only removed from git and are not deleted from the disk.