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    While this is a good answer, it's important to note this doesn't "untrack" a file in the sense that people usually use that word with Git, where an untracked file is one that isn't in the repository history and never has been. What this answer does is keep the file in the repository but prevent Git from noticing that changes have been made to it. That has some significant differences -- most importantly, the file is still present for others, and if someone else makes changes to it and you pull, your local copy can be overwritten without confirmation. Commented Oct 22, 2019 at 14:02
  • BEWARE, this untracks the file only locally there is no way to propagate this untrack to remote repo. If you still want do it - say for directories - there is a way Commented Feb 22 at 14:40