git-clean-cached.sh

#!/bin/bash

cat .gitignore | egrep -v "^#|^$" | while read line; do
  if [ -n "$line" ]; then
    OLD_IFS=$IFS; IFS=""
    for ignored_file in $( git ls-files "$line" ); do
      git rm --cached "$ignored_file"
    done
    IFS=$OLD_IFS
  fi
done

Could you add a description of what this is doing ? Are .gitignore entries directories ? In this case would git rm -r --cached suffice instead of the for loop ?

I couldn't quite get that to work in git shell (in windows), but used this one-liner instead
git ls-files --ignored --exclude-standard | sed 's/^.*$/"&"/g' | xargs git rm --cached