Git how to not include specific file(s) to commit

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Im trying to not include some files to be commit. For example, I don't want any change in the following files to be included in a commit:

bootstrap/start.php

So I include them in .gitignore like this:

/bootstrap/compiled.php
/bootstrap/start.php
/vendor
composer.phar
composer.lock
.env.local.php
.env.php
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db.idea
.idea/
/public/dbase
/public/user_images
/app/config/lenovo

but when Im running git status I still get this message:

On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

    modified:   .gitignore
    modified:   bootstrap/start.php

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

How to do that? thank you

dloman · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-28 01:36:18Z

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bootstrap/start.php is already tracked by git.

from the gitignore docs "A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected; see the NOTES below for details."

answered Feb 28, 2015 at 1:36

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junior Over a year ago

what is that mean? will any changes in bootstrap/start.php still commited ?

dloman Over a year ago

it means that you have added bootstrap/start.php to the git repository and git is tracking the changes to the file. You can tell git to stop ignore changes to a tracked file via the command git update-index --assume-unchanged bootstrap/start.php and you can then restart tracking of those changes with git update-index --no-assume-unchanged bootstrap/start.php

junior Over a year ago

git update-index --assume-unchanged bootstrap/start.php this works, if I run git status the bootstrap/start.php not listed anymore ... thank you sir :) . I don't want any change in that file tracked by git so I don't need to run git update-index --no-assume-unchanged bootstrap/start.php right?

dloman Over a year ago

Yep...only run that if you want to reenable tracking of changes sometime in the future

Milind Dumbare · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-02 18:01:15Z

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Try this.

git update-index --assume-unchanged bootstrap/start.php

answered Mar 2, 2015 at 18:01

Milind Dumbare

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