How to make git ignore files?

Question

git

Help, nothing helps. There is a .gitignore file, which has only three lines:
log/*
tmp/*
profile/*
The first two patterns work, both files and folders are ignored - everything is in general. But profile / * does not want to work in any. Indexes any changes. git reset --hard does not remove files from the indexed list, that is, git has indexed .gitignore, knows what to ignore, but does not ignore. git rm -r --cached profile/ doesn't help, and neither does ignoring every single file, every single directory. Help fight this plague

Answer 1

git rm -r --cached . 
git add .
git commit -am "Remove ignored files"

Answer 2

Try: /log//tmp//profile/

Answer 3

Try writing a folder to .git/info/exclude - exclude is a file