gitforget, How to make Git “forget” about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?

gitforget.md

How to make Git “forget” about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore?

git rm --cached -r .
git add .
git update-index --assume-unchanged
git commit -a -m "forget cached"

STEP BY STEP

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1274057/how-to-make-git-forget-about-a-file-that-was-tracked-but-is-now-in-gitignore

Remove all cached files to ensure there are no .gitignore files being tracked

git rm --cached -r .

Track the files that should be tracked

git add .

Very important adding. If file that is ignored would be modified (but in spite of this should be not committed), after modifying and executing git add . it would be added to index. And next commit would commit it to repository. To avoid this execute right after all that mataal said one more command:

git update-index --assume-unchanged <path&filename>