Git – How to Ignore Tracked Files

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I have some tracked files in a repository which are automatically modified when building the code. I don't want to untrack them, I just don't want them to appear as modified and I don't want them to be staged when I git add.

Is this possible?

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Sure.

git update-index --assume-unchanged [<file> ...]

To undo and start tracking again:

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged [<file> ...]

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Try this

git update-index --assume-unchanged ignoreme/ignore.txt

Git will ignore any future changes to this file without changing the repository. To start tracking changes again, use

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged ignoreme/ignore.txt

Note that this only takes effect for the current working copy, so you would need to do this each time you clone the repository.

Git – How to Untrack and Stop Tracking Files

OK, though wildcards don't work (in Windows apparently) it seems one can remove a whole folder with:

git rm -r --cached "path/to/foo/"

I understand that --cached only unstages - you have to git commit to remove them from the repo.

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