How to refresh the file index with a new .gitignore

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Git is the one of powerful tools that I'm using on my day to day activities, but sometimes it's better to share some of my experiences with it, all sudden I committed Drupal 6 settings.php files located in sites/default/settings.php, when I see the changes I was like OMG! now how can I add it to my .gitignore. I tried just add it in to ignore list but that didn't help. I should have done that earlier :(.

Then I jumped in to IRC (one of my favorite places) and ask it there, answers were simple and here they are.

I assume you've commited your changes, if not just commit all your changes first git commit -m 'Commit all my changes'.

Then run git rm --cached sites/default/settings.php or if you have mutiple files or folders git rm -r --cached *to_be_ignored*

Now add everything from the updated index git add -A

Commit all your changes git commit -m 'Obey with .gitignore'

Hooray! your done!

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