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Expand Up @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ A collection of GIT commands that I personally use because they're really useful
* **[Create an alias for pushing to all remote branches](#create-an-alias-for-pushing-to-all-remote-branches)**
* **[Bundle a git repo to a zip file](#bundle-a-git-repo-to-a-zip-file)**
* **[Overwrite a branch entirely with another branch](#overwrite-a-branch-entirely-with-another-branch)**
* **[Exclude a file from the git repo without using .gitignore](#exclude-a-file-from-the-git-repo-without-using-gitignore)**
* **[Exclude a file from the git repo which is already tracked](#exclude-a-file-from-the-git-repo-which-is-already-tracked)**

### Basic Add, Commit, Push
```
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git merge dummy
```

### Exclude a file from the git repo without using .gitignore
Edit the exclude file and add the folders/files you wish to ignore similar to .gitignore
```
vi .git/info/exclude
```

### Exclude a file from the git repo which is already tracked
```
git update-index —assume-unchanged path/to/file.txt
git update-index —assume-unchanged path/to/folder/
```


## ...more to come