Git Remove Tracked file

Shubham Agarwal

18 December 2016

Git is powerful. To tell you how powerful it just compare it with Mjolnir

But there are always some files which are being tracked in the versioning event if it is not used for us.

Let us take an example:

In the above image we can see some of the folder like build, idea are being tracked.

We can simply remove if from being tracked by few commands.

Add .gitignore plugin in you android studio.

Here is sample .gitignore file took from community.

#built application files
*.apk
*.ap_

# files for the dex VM
*.dex

# Java class files
*.class

# generated files
bin/
gen/

# Local configuration file (sdk path, etc)
local.properties

# Windows thumbnail db
Thumbs.db

# OSX files
.DS_Store

# Eclipse project files
.classpath
.project

# Android Studio
*.iml
.idea
#.idea/workspace.xml - remove # and delete .idea if it better suit your needs.
.gradle
build/

#NDK
obj/

#built application files

*.apk

*.ap_

# files for the dex VM

*.dex

# Java class files

*.class

# generated files

bin/

gen/

# Local configuration file (sdk path, etc)

local.properties

# Windows thumbnail db

Thumbs.db

# OSX files

.DS_Store

# Eclipse project files

.classpath

.project

# Android Studio

*.iml

.idea

#.idea/workspace.xml - remove # and delete .idea if it better suit your needs.

.gradle

build/

#NDK

obj/

Now if you want to untrack the files, Here are the steps you can follow.

Update the .gitignore file
commit pending changes
Execute following git command.

git rm -r --cached . 
git add .
git commit -am "Remove ignored files"

git rm -r --cached .

git add .

git commit -am "Remove ignored files"

Hope that fix your git tracking problem.

Happy coding !

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