How to make Git ignore changes I'm making to a file (under source control)?

Question

I am using git for big web application. At my local end I want to make few files unchanged during work flow of git. For example there is database and config files which have dif

Answer 1

You can't lock file.

Instead, you can create an example-file (so you have a base config file) and copy it at the right place.

git mv path/to/config path/to/config-example
echo "path/to/config" >>.gitignore
cp path/to/config-example path/to/config

Answer 2

Use the .gitignore file for this. Such files like database configurations or folders with changing files should not be included in the git repository.

In most cases you can create a template file like

database_config.txt_template

and commit that file in your git repo. When a new user install that project he can rename the file and can change the settings.