They would stay in git. You can remove them from tracking by update .gitignore as you said, and I also do a "git rm --cached" just for "safety" to remove them from the INDEX, but leave the files in the working directory.
There is an example of using "git filter-branch" to totally remove a file from every commit in a git repo. The second example on page: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-filter-branch.html shows git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename' HEAD I don't know if it is really necessary. It's only disk space. And compressed. So, unless the files were large, why bother? On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:47 AM, fpefpe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello -- I realized after-the-fact that I should nave ignored some files at > the start of a project and new repo -- If I add these file name to the > .gitignore file would files already tracked stay in the log/history and that > future add/commits would now ignore those files? > > -- > > -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown --
