Xcode says "Uncommitted Changes" Whenever I try to git pull or push
I am using git in my projects, whenever I try to pull from Xcode I get "Uncommitted Changes" and it prevents me from pulling/pushing. I try to commit and find one file with extension *.xcuserstate, this file is modified whenever I open/scroll into any project file in Xcode. That leaves me no option but to do a single commit that contains that file, which fill the git commit logs with meaningless commits.
Is this there is a way to stop this behavior?
I tried to put *.xcuserstate and xcuserdata into git ignore but that caused Xcode to crash every time I try to pull.
This happens with Xcode 4.2 and 4.3
Answer
Normally you don't want to put the *.xcuserstate and *.xcuserdata files into your Git repository. These files aren't really part of your project, but are just a place where Xcode stores its local information that is helpful when reloading your project.
You can fix this by using:
git rm --cached *.xcuserstate *.xcuserdata
and then committing the result. This will remove those files from the repository without removing them from your working directory.