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I did search for the solution, yet I believe my situation is a bit different than those I read about.
I am working on a particular branch and made a mistake, having edited a file in a way that is unrelated to the theme of the branch, and now want these changes to not make it into the commit. I do not want to lose these changes, as I will try to commit them on another branch later, one way or another.
I tried git rm --cached but then I see status deleted in my git status - will the file be removed from the repository? I don't want that - I want it to stay unchanged from whatever it is in previous commit on my working branch.
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If you want to ignore a file that you've committed in the past, you'll need to delete the file from your repository and then add a . gitignore rule for it. Using the --cached option with git rm means that the file will be deleted from your repository, but will remain in your working directory as an ignored file.
Set “–assume-unchanged” to a path to exclude to check on git commit and it will exclude your file from git commit. You will need to use the git update-index and –assume-unchanged to exclude files from git commit.
Excluding local files without creating a .Use your favorite text editor to open the file called . git/info/exclude within the root of your Git repository. Any rule you add here will not be checked in, and will only ignore files for your local repository.
For files that aren't tracked by Git, you can use a . gitignore or exclude file. For files that are tracked by Git, you can tell Git to stop tracking them and to ignore changes.
If you do not stage the changes, they will not be part of the commit, something like this:
git status
# On branch development
# 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: ResearchProposal.tex
Here, ResearchProposal.tex has changes, but they will not be committed by git commit.
If you have two sets of changes in a single file, some that you want to commit and some that you don't, read this.
If you've run git add on a file that you don't want to commit, you need to unstage it:
git reset HEAD <file>
like this:
$ git add ResearchProposal.tex
$ git status
# On branch development
# Changes to be committed:
# (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
# modified: ResearchProposal.tex
$ git reset HEAD ResearchProposal.tex
Unstaged changes after reset:
M ResearchProposal.tex
$ git status
# On branch development
# 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: ResearchProposal.tex
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