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This helps untract files previous pushed to repo, and then added to .gitignore
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This helps untract files previous pushed to repo, and then added to .gitignore

git rm -r --cached .
git add .
git commit -m "chore: untracked files issue resolved to fix .gitignore"

Here is another example un-tracking files like .env and then removing it from the history

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