Applying gitignore to committed files

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I have committed loads of files that I now want to ignore  How can I tell git to now ignore these files from future commits    EDIT  I do want to remove them from the repository too  They are files created after ever build or for user-specific tooling support

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Follow these steps     Add path to gitignore file Run this command   git rm -r --cached foldername  commit changes as usually

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After editing  gitignore to match the ignored files  you can do git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard to see the files that are included in the exclude lists  you can then do  Linux MacOS  git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard -z   xargs -0 git rm --cached Windows  PowerShell   git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard       git rm --cached  quot    quot    Windows  cmd exe   for  F  quot tokens   quot   a in   git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard   do  git rm --cached  quot  a quot   to remove them from the repository  without deleting them from disk   Edit  You can also add this as an alias in your  gitconfig file so you can run it anytime you like  Just add the following line under the  alias  section  modify as needed for Windows or Mac   apply-gitignore    git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard -z   xargs -0 git rm --cached   The -r flag in xargs prevents git rm from running on an empty result and printing out its usage message  but may only be supported by GNU findutils   Other versions of xargs may or may not have a similar option   Now you can just type git apply-gitignore in your repo  and it ll do the work for you

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Edit  gitignore to match the file you want to ignore git rm --cached  path to file   See also    How do I git rm a file without deleting it from disk  Remove a file from a Git repository without deleting it from the local filesystem Ignoring a directory from a Git repo after it  39 s been added

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Old question  but some of us are in git-posh  powershell   This is the solution for that   git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard   foreach   git rm --cached

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to leave the file in the repo but ignore future changes to it   git update-index --assume-unchanged  lt file gt    and to undo this   git update-index --no-assume-unchanged  lt file gt    to find out which files have been set this way   git ls-files -v grep   h    credit for the original answer to  http   blog pagebakers nl 2009 01 29 git-ignoring-changes-in-tracked-files

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Be sure that your actual repo is the lastest version  Edit  gitignore as you wish git rm -r --cached    remove all files  git add    re-add all files   then commit as usual

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