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how to use gitignore to ignore a folder

You can ignore entire directories, just by including their paths and putting a / on the end:

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node_modules/
logs/

gitignore folder

in .gitignore:
	folder/

gitignore exclude folder

# Ignore all directories, and all sub-directories, and it's contents:
*/*

#Now ignore all files in the current directory 
#(This fails to ignore files without a ".", for example 
#'file.txt' works, but 
#'file' doesn't):
*.*

#Only Include these specific directories and subdirectories:
!wordpress/
!wordpress/*/
!wordpress/*/wp-content/
!wordpress/*/wp-content/themes/
!wordpress/*/wp-content/themes/*
!wordpress/*/wp-content/themes/*/*
!wordpress/*/wp-content/themes/*/*/*
!wordpress/*/wp-content/themes/*/*/*/*
!wordpress/*/wp-content/themes/*/*/*/*/*

git exclude folder

directory_to_exclude/

how to exclude .ide directory in gitignore

# Ignore the node_modules directory
node_modules/

# Ignore Logs
logs
*.log

# Ignore the build directory
/dist

# The file containing environment variables 
.env

# Ignore IDE specific files
.idea/
.vscode/
*.sw*