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I have a config file which I want to keep on the remote repository, but I don't want to track its changes on my computer. Adding it to .gitignore doesn't do the trick.
The reason I don't want to track changes is because it's supposed to differ between computers depending on their environment.
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What you probably want to do is this: git update-index --skip-worktree . (The third option, which you probably don't want is: git rm --cached .
If you want to temporarily stop tracking a file, you can still use
git update-index --assume-unchanged <file> // track changes again : git update-index --no-assume-unchanged <file> If that's the case then you shouldn't have the file versioned at all; you should version a template of the file. For example, if the configuration file is foo/config.txt then you should have a versioned foo/config.txt.template in the repository with example (or blank) configuration settings. foo/config.txt should not be in the repository at all, and should be ignored with .gitignore.
Then, in a new clone, you just copy foo/config.txt.template to foo/config.txt and alter the settings as appropriate.
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