Unless full paths are used .gitignore, all matching files and folders will be ignored, however deep they are in the repo.

For example, ignoring log/* doesn't just ignore all log files, but also files such as lib/project/log/awesome_logger.rb.  It's a mistake I've made a couple of times but never seemed to have learned from.

Author: tomafro

Rails.gitignore

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 *.rbc
-.bundle
-vendor/bundle
-log/*
-tmp/*
-db/*.sqlite3
-public/system/*
-coverage/
 *.sassc
 .sass-cache
 capybara-*.html
 .rspec
+/.bundle
+/vendor/bundle
+/log/*
+/tmp/*
+/db/*.sqlite3
+/public/system/*
+/coverage/