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                Git: Ignore already checked in file
              
          
    Git: How can I ignore a file that is already committed to the repo?

You have a repo and quite some developers have cloned the repo and working on it.
Now you want to add a file to gitignore which is already checked-in or tracked by Git.(The file is already commited into the repo)
Below are the steps on how to ignore this file (lets say the filename is config.py):


Add it to .gitignore:


$ echo "config.py" >> .gitignore