Android Studio does not ignore .gitignore files

Question

I added some masks and files in gitignore Settings> Version control> Ignored files :

However, when I try to send a new commit, these files are not ignored:

And I'm not sure why ... I remember how I used (in the same way) Ignored Files before and it worked correctly. Can anyone whats going on here?

Answer 1

First of all, Settings | Version control | Ignored files are not .gitignore, this is IntelliJ IDEA's own ignore mechanism that works for any version control system.

This mechanism only works to ignore unversioned files. If you have already added your .iml file to the version control, it will not ignore subsequent changes to this file.