title: How to exclude unwanted folders content to be shown when I execute 'git status' command
body: <p>I'm trying to avoid showing unwanted folder's content (ex:- .settings, .metadata etc ) when i execute <code>git status</code> command.</p>
  <p>I modified .gitignore file after adding the folder names to it but still I'm getting all these files when I execute git status.</p>