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115 questions linked to/from How to stop tracking and ignore changes to a file in Git?
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remove a file from GIT control [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: git - removing a file from source control (but not from the source) I have a .classpath file which is currently in GIT repository. After I pulled from remove repository(git ...
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How to exclude file to push? [duplicate]
I have repository with one file with the local settings. I have added it to .gitignore and to .git/info/exclude but it was previously pushed to server and git wants to track them. How to exclude this ...
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GIT Ignore already commited files using exclude for local changes [duplicate]
I cloned the remote repository which is having three files file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt changes are made locally in my machine into file3.txt. I don't want the changes to go into remote repo and ...
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Remove file in specified path from git tracking [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: git - removing a file from source control (but not from the source) I have a .DS_Store file that is in the path project/app/assets/javascripts. How do I remove from this file ...
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Stop tracking file locally, but let other repo users keep tracking it? [duplicate]
I'm collaborating on an IntelliJ IDEA project using Git and GitHub. The original creator of the repo added the IntelliJ .idea folder to the repo, and I find it annoying to see changes to IDE files ...
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Git ignore committed files [duplicate]
I have small but burdensome problem. In my private git repository I added temporary/cache folder to push and now any time my cached files supplications in pushes. How to set them ignore? I've try to ...
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Visual studio Ignore the .gitignore file [duplicate]
I add to my project root the .gitignore file but I don't know why I still get the bin and debug folder here is my .gitignore file https://github.com/geshtop/5780_final1/blob/master/.gitignore in the ...
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Why doesn't Git mark files deleted after I add them to the ignore list? [duplicate]
I'm curious as to why Git does not report already tracked files/directories/sub-directories as deleted when that file/directory/sub-directory is later ignored (in .gitignore). As ignoring tells Git ...
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How to exclude file from ignore list of gitignore [duplicate]
I have two files .cat and .inf which are not mentioned in the .gitignore file. But still, they are greyed out in VS code which shows that they are not getting committed/uploaded to the git repo. my-...
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Is there a way to make only certain files in github public? [duplicate]
I have several sensitive images on a computer vision program I created that I don't want public but I want to share the main python code. Is there a way to make only certain files in a github ...
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.gitignore file not ignoring VS files [duplicate]
I have inherited a Visual Studio project, and the git repo did not include a .gitignore file. I downloaded the one located here https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore ...
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How to Ignore files when commiting to a git repository rails 4 [duplicate]
I am try to ignore development.rb, database.yml files when commiting to a git repository .gitignore config/environments/development.rb config/database.yml
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git ignore tries to commit the changes even after they have been added to .gitignore [duplicate]
i accidently added some of storage files to my git repository that i want to remove them from local machine now but they have to remain on server . so what i did is cloning the project on my local ...
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Git ignore obj / debug folder after using git init [duplicate]
I have some existing code but now want to push this to GIT so I followed some steps and it states cd <localdir> git init git add . git commit -m 'message' git remote add origin <url> git ...
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Unnecessary files on GitHub Desktop [duplicate]
I'm Developing an MauiApp on my windows machine and on GitHub Desktop there are many unnecessary changes which are appearing . these changes are related to bin/obj and other files ,Due to which it ...