How to stop tracking and ignore changes to a file in Git?

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Solution

Just calling `git rm --cached` on each of the files you want to remove from revision control should be fine. As long as your local ignore patterns are correct you won't see these files included in the output of git status.

Note that this solution removes the files from the repository, so all developers would need to maintain their own local (non-revision controlled) copies of the file

To prevent git from detecting changes in these files you should also use this command:

git update-index --assume-unchanged [path]

What you probably want to do: (from below @Ryan Taylor answer)

- This is to tell git you want your own independent version of the file or folder. For instance, you don't want to overwrite (or delete) production/staging config files.

`git update-index --skip-worktree <path-name>`

The full answer is here in this URL: http://source.kohlerville.com/2009/02/untrack-files-in-git/

Problem

I have cloned a project that includes some `.csproj` files. I don't need/like my local `csproj` files being tracked by Git (or being brought up when creating a patch), but clearly they are needed in the project. I have added `*.csproj` to my LOCAL `.gitignore`, but the files are already in the repo. When I type git status, it shows my changes to `csproj` which I am not interested in keeping track of or submitting for patches. How do I remove the "tracking of" these files from my personal repo (but keep them in the source so I can use them) so that I don't see the changes when I do a status (or create a patch)? Is there a correct/canonical way to handle this situation?

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