.gitignore not ignoring filenames with spaces in them on `git status`

Question

When I do a git status I get:

#       modified:   COM/config/Config/Edit Project Settings.lnk

But in my .gitignore I have:

*.lnk

What is going on here? Could it be a problem with whitespaces?

Answer 1

The problem is not with the whitespaces.

I think the file is already tracked in your git repo, so you can remove it from the repo using the following:

git rm -r --cached "COM/config/Config/Edit Project Settings.lnk"
git commit -m "removed .lnk"

This won't delete the .lnk file, only untrack it locally (Though it will delete on other folks machines once this commit goes upstream)