git ignore folders in my case

Question

My project contains the following directories:

moduleA/jars/
moduleB/jars/
moduleC/jars/
...

I want git to ignore all those jars/ folders, so I created a .gitignore file with the following content:

**/jars

Then I commited & pushed everything to remote git repository. But I still see all those jars/ folders in remote git repository, why?

If its already added to git it won't get affected. But for new `/jars` it will ignore. — Ravi Dhoriya ツ, Dec 30 '14 at 11:09
possible duplicate of [Ignore files that have already been committed to a Git repository](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139762/ignore-files-that-have-already-been-committed-to-a-git-repository) — Dietrich Epp, Dec 30 '14 at 11:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 30 '14 at 11:26

First, if those folders are already committed, you need to remove them (from the Git repo, not from the disk, hence the --cached option):

find . -type d -name jars -print0 | xargs -0 git rm -r -f --ignore-unmatch

Second, to ignore a folder, its line in the .gitignore needs to ends with a '/'

jars/

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