Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Committing Previously Ignored Files

The video tutorial covers the creation and application of .gitignore rules, including ignoring single files, directories, and using wildcards. It demonstrates how to commit a previously ignored file by renaming it, making it tracked, and pushing changes to a remote repository. The tutorial also shows how to ensure a clean working state using git status and concludes with a brief introduction on ignoring previously committed files.

What is one of the basic rules you can set in a gitignore file?

• Deleting all files in a specific directory

• Ignoring all files in a specific directory

• Tracking all files in a specific directory

• Renaming all files in a specific directory

What happens when you rename a previously ignored file in the gitignore file?

• The file remains ignored

• The file becomes tracked

• The file is deleted

• The file is moved to a new directory

After making a previously ignored file tracked, what is the next step to ensure changes are saved remotely?

• Push the changes to the remote repository

• Rename the file again

• Delete the file

• Ignore the file again

How can you verify that a file is now tracked by Git after being ignored?

• Check if the file is deleted

• Check the file size

• Look for the file in the remote repository

• See if the file is still in the gitignore list

What is the next topic mentioned after discussing how to track a previously ignored file?

• How to delete a file

• How to move a file to a new directory

• How to ignore a previously committed file

• How to rename a file