.gitignore doesn't work in windows terminal

@torek Thank you, it had something to do with `utf-8.

I added a few lines in my powershell profile notepad :

[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

$PSDefaultParameterValues['Out-File:Encoding'] = 'utf8'

$PSDefaultParameterValues['Get-Content:Encoding'] = 'utf8'

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Then i checked the box for Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support :

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After rebooting the computer it worked and started to ignore logs/ :

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I'm grateful for your help.

You mention that this does seem to work correctly when using bash as your shell, but not when using some other command-line-interpreter (whatever comes up in "my windows terminal", presumably). Some Windows users have experienced that their command line interpreter writes files using a Windows UTF-16-LE encoding, rather than UTF-8. Git cannot read UTF-16-LE .gitignore file contents as it does not know how to decode UTF-16-LE here. So that's the most likely cause, as bash will not try to re-encode everything intu UTF-16-LE.