How to force git to completely forget about a file that is present in gitignore folder

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Hi Team,

I have one file in the .gitignore list. However, that file keeps showing up in git status after it's edited. How do you force git to completely forget about it?

Dec 22, 2020 in Git & GitHub by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

gitignore file is a text file that tells Git which files or folders to ignore in a project. A local . gitignore file is usually placed in the root directory of a project. You can also create a global . gitignore file and any entries in that file will be ignored in all of your Git repositories.

To stop tracking a file you need to remove it from the index. This can be achieved with this command.

$ git rm --cached <file>

If you want to remove a whole folder, you need to remove all files in it recursively.

$ git rm -r --cached <folder>
answered Dec 22, 2020 by MD
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