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

Forgot your .gitignore?

If you have the entire project locally but forgot to add you git ignore and are now tracking some unnecessary files use this command to remove everything

git rm --cached -r .

make sure you are at the root of the project.

Then you can do the usual

Add

git add .

Commit

git commit -m 'removed all and added with git ignore'

Push

git push origin master

Conclusion

Hope this helps out people who have to make changes to their .gitignore or forgot it all together.

• It removes the entire cache
• Looks at your .gitignore
• Adds the files you want to track
• Pushes to your repo