How to ignore files which are in repository?

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prcaen picture prcaen · Aug 29, 2011 · Viewed 32.1k times · Source

I have a file (config.php), that is already commited to Git repository, but I want to ignore locally, i.e. I want that file to remain in repository, but force Git to ignore any changes to it.

I put the file into .gitignore, but it is still marked as changed and Git still is attempting to commit changes to it, every time I commit something. Any idea, what am I missing or doing wrong?

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Aug 29, 2011

If the file is still displayed in the status, even though it is in the .gitignore, make sure it isn't already tracked.

git rm --cached config.php

If you just want to ignore it locally, you could also make it ignored by the git status:

git update-index --assume-unchanged config.php

As commented, do note that using --assume-unchanged might cause unwanted data loss as git stash resets the "ignored" files to the state in upstream, undoing local changes, without a warning or saving.

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