How to stop tracking and ignore changes to a file in Git?

Question

I have cloned a project that includes some .csproj files. I don\'t need/like my local csproj files being tracked by Git (or being brought up when c

Answer 1

To prevent monitoring a file by git

git update-index --assume-unchanged [file-path]

And to revert it back use

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged [file-path]

A repo to refer for similar use cases https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets