Adding or removing files onto your .gitignore when you are already tracking

how-to-git-recache.txt

Often we have to add or remove files from a gitignore. In order to do so I choose to recache git and this is how I do it:

1. make your .gitignore changes

2. Recache git

cmd: git rm -r --cached .
--> this tells git to remove the cache for all your files that are currently being tracked

3. Add all the files to git again 

cmd: git add .

4. Commit this change and push to your remote repos