I have a repo for an obsidian vault that I added a .gitignore file to. However the .gitignore is being pushed.

When at first I saw that it was being uploaded I tried running:

git rm --cached .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit -m "Update .gitignore"

But still, it remains uploaded along with any files it outlines. I also deleted everything on git, made a new branch, and forcefully overwrote main with the new_temp_branch. I had hoped that the new branch, having a .gitignore from the first commit, would not upload the file. I was wrong.

My .gitigore file has no listed file type / does not end with .txt etc. It is spelt correctly.

Is it possible it has something to do with Obsidian?