How to make Git ignore changes I'm making to a file (under source control)?

Question

I am using git for big web application. At my local end I want to make few files unchanged during work flow of git. For example there is database and config files which have dif

Answer 1

You can't lock file.

Instead, you can create an example-file (so you have a base config file) and copy it at the right place.

git mv path/to/config path/to/config-example
echo "path/to/config" >>.gitignore
cp path/to/config-example path/to/config