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Asked: 2026-06-06T11:11:50+00:00

I seem to have ballsed up my git repo by tracking a file, later

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I seem to have ballsed up my git repo by tracking a file, later ignoring it and then deleting it. The thing is, I want the file to be present in a remote repository (the live site), but just don’t want to track.

Now my master branch is trying to remove all the files from the repository, which I know will delete them on the remote branch when I push changes… I just want to untrack them, but cannot do that as they’re already deleted on master and git rm -r –cached says ‘did not match any files’.

How can I untrack these deleted files without removing them from the remote repository?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You just don’t want to track a file, but you want to keep the file in the remote repository (non-bare).

    Use this git command. After you do this, git stops checking the file for possible modifications.

    git update-index --assume-unchanged  <filename>

    At any time, you can track again by setting –no-assume-unchaged flag

    git update-index --no-assume-unchanged  <filename>

    These command do not affect the remote repository.

    For more information: http://kar-git.blogspot.in/2012/11/how-to-set-git-to-ignore-few-files-like.html

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