Question

I have a database project that generates these files and added to gitignore. However they don’t seem to be getting ignored and I need to revert them before commiting, quite annoying. The files are still locked by VS, is this a problem?

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# Windows and Mac OS X Temp Cache Files
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[Tt]humbs.db
*.DS_Store

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#Visual Studio files
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*.[Oo]bj
*.user
*.aps
*.pch
*.vspscc
*.vssscc
*_i.c
*_p.c
*.ncb
*.suo
*.tlb
*.tlh
*.bak
*.[Cc]ache
*.ilk
*.log
*.lib
*.sbr
*.sdf
*.dbmdl
*.mdf
*.ldf
*.Database.dbmdl
ipch/
obj/
[Bb]in
[Dd]ebug*/
[Rr]elease*/

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#Tooling
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_ReSharper*/
*.resharper
[Tt]est[Rr]esult*

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#Project files
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[Bb]uild/

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#Subversion files
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.svn

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# Microsoft Office Temp Files
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~$*

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# YoureOnTime specific files
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YoureOnTime.Database.dbmdl


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Answer 1

I need to revert them before commiting

indicates that they are already versioned and were entered into .gitignore after they were added using git add.

Two possible solutions:

1. temporarily take them out of your .gitignore, then
   git rm --cached -- *.mdf and
   git rm --cached -- *.ldf.
   This will remove the files from the index while keeping them on disk. When done,
   git commit -m "removing crap from repo" and restore your .gitignore.

2. If you don’t want to play around with your .gitignore, you could use update-index:
   git update-index --assume-unchanged -- *.mdf and
   git update-index --assume-unchanged -- *.ldf.
   This will force git to see the files as unchanged even if they were.