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 tell Git not to track changes to your local file/folder (meaning git status won't detect changes to it), do:

git update-index --skip-worktree path/to/file

And to tell Git to track changes to your local version once again (so you can commit the changes), do:

git update-index --no-skip-worktree path/to/file