I'm not sure why the gitignore isn't working, but for some reason it continually tries to add the /elpa/ directory to version control. Here is my gitignore (in the root of my dotfiles repository)
*.swp
*.swo
*~
\#*\#
/.emacs.desktop
/.emacs.desktop.lock
*.elc
auto-save-list
tramp
.\#*
.org-id-locations
*_archive
*_flymake.*
/eshell/history
/eshell/lastdir
/elpa/
*.rel
/auto/
.cask/
*.last
/elpa/*
/.emacs.d/elpa/*
Notice I tried 3 different elpas in here and none of them are working. Does anyone know why?
The directory structure is
|- configurations
- .gitignore
|- dotfiles
|- emacs.d
| -elpa
- init.el
- etc
/elpa/ (starting with a '/') means it will only ignore the one at the level of the .gitignore.
Not any elpa folder below that .gitignore file.
elpa/ would ignore all elpa folders.
(no need for elpa/*)
From gitignore man page:
A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".