How to stop tracking and ignore changes to a file in Git?

Question

I have cloned a project that includes some .csproj files. I don\'t need/like my local csproj files being tracked by Git (or being brought up when c

Answer 1

This is a two step process:

1. Remove tracking of file/folder - but keep them on disk - using

   git rm --cached 
   

   Now they do not show up as "changed" but still show as

       untracked files in  git status -u  
   

2. Add them to .gitignore