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How can I add my executable file to .gitignore when the file has no extension? – Ubuntu

I’ve created a C++ file and it runs perfectly. But the problem comes when I push my code to GitHub. There is an executable file as the result of building my C++ program, and it’s being added to source control. I don’t want that.

In Windows, executables have the file extension .exe and I can write *.exe in the .gitignore. But in Ubuntu, executables don’t need an extension. How do I make Git ignore that?

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    The .gitignore file does not need to use wildcards. It can match whole names as well. If your executable is named "myprog", then add a line containing myprog to the ignore-file.

    Usually, you would have your build generate its outputs to a subdirectory: e.g. bin, and you can put that entire directory into the ignore-file as follows:

    bin/
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    Add just the name of the file in the .gitignore file.

    But if the file is already tracked by git you will have in all likelihood to untrack it with:

    git rm --cached my-file

    Otherwise you will see that the file is not ignored. Because the .gitignore rules work only on untracked file.

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