Git tricks: How to ignore files locally

This git trick could be useful if you want to have some files in your coding project to be modify in your local but you don´t want to push those changes into your code repository. For example I used it for some config files in my Python backend projects that use with personal settings.

A practical example taking into account that you have a file in the following path of your project app/config_saaf.json that you don´t want to bee tracked by git in order to avoid to push the changes.

1. Navigate to .git/info in your root path folder.

cd .git/info

2. Open the file exclude using vi:

vi exclude

3. Add the path you want to exclude in the file pressing “i” key:

4. Save the file pressing “Esc” and then typing “:wq!” and press “Enter”.

After that run the following command:

# General structure: git update-index --skip-worktree <path_name>
git…