Keep ignored files out of git status
git, gitignore
Solution
As I found in this post, `.gitignore` only works for untracked files. If you added files to repository, you can:
git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>
or remove them from repository by
git rm --cached <file>
Edit
This article explains that too
Problem
I would like to stop Git from showing ignored files in `git status`, because having tons of documentation and config files in the list of Changed but not updated files, renders the list half-useless. Is it normal for Git to show these files? I put the ignore information in a `.gitignore` file in the root directory of the Git repository and they are not added when using `git add .` but it seems that they are not fully ignored either, as they show up in the aforementioned list and do not show up in the list printed by `git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard`. Only files matched by the patterns in `~/.gitignore` show up there. Could it be because at an earlier stage I didn't ignore them and they were thus committed at least once?