Git is a popular distributed version control system, which helps keeping track of changes less hassle. In some scenarios, we might want Git to ignore some changes or hide them from Git. In this post, we’ll explore a couple of ways to do so. Basics Let’s go back basics first. There’re 3 states in Git, namely modified, staged and committed. These states apply to files on which Git has an eye. For those Git doesn’t track yet, we have another state named untracked—they are listed under ...
