How to make change to .gitattributes take effect

Question

I\'m working on a project where we have recently started using git. The setup was not perfect from start, so I\'ve set up .gitattributes after people started cloning/working

Answer 1

You don't have to reset hard (if I understand correctly what you're doing).

My case is similiar. I added a .gitattributes in a running project. I need the files I have and the files in online repo to be ruled by gitattr.

# This will force git to recheck and "reapply" gitattributes changes.
git rm --cached -r .
git add -A

Your commit will re-add all the .ending files you mention and you'll not lose any changes you may have. Of course, Bob will have to pull to get it.