I have a project that I have uploaded to github. I have some files that are already added that I want removed. I just want them to exist locally in my folder.
My git ignore file is check in with the git repository. I don't want ANY mention of these files any where in the repository. If I add them to git ignore file, there will be mention of them in the repository.
Secondly what if I want my gitignore file to be ignored?
How can I just make a file be COMPLETELY in a git initialized folder?
I have a project that I have uploaded to github. I have some files that are already added that I want removed. I just want them to exist locally in my folder.
git rm --cached file1 file2...
will remove them from the repo but leave the files in your local directory. You can then add them to your .gitignore file so that git won't keep telling you that you have untracked files.
I don't want ANY mention of these files any where in the repository.
There's not much you can do to remove them from existing commits that are already in the repository short of removing all the commits that include the files. So if you want to pretend that these files never existed, you should probably just create a new repo with the current state of the project after you've removed the offending files.
Secondly what if I want my gitignore file to be ignored?
put ".gitignore" inside .gitignore file
.gitignoreas a line to the file.gitignore. As for removing data after a commit, read this As they indicate, if you have already pushed up to github, you should consider anything sensitive already compromised.