So where I work we use a variety of IDEs. I'm the only one that is using Rider so I don't want to add it to the project .gitignore file. Rider creates a .run folder in the root of every project. I want to tell git to ignore this folder in all projects. I added a local ~/.gitignore with the following content:

.run/

Yet i'm still seeing the .run in git status. The .run folder is untracked:

CodePudding user response：

Try clearing git cache

• add /<path_to_folder>/.run in gitignore file
• git rm -rf --cached .
• git add

Now the magic will happen and your .run folder will be ignored

CodePudding user response：

So the comment from @TorgeRosendahl got me headed in the right direction. I looked in my global git settings and found the following:
core.excludefile=/mnt/c/Users/<user>/.gitignore_global

I didn't remember even setting that but apparently i did it a long time ago so git under windows & wsl could share the same .gitignore file. I tried to change .gitignore_global didn't work until I looked more closely at my config setting above i'm missing the s in core.excludesfiles. After I fixed that it started working.