On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 3:03 PM Jaydeep Das <jaydeepjd.8914@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Generally, To ignore files from a repository, we just have to add the > file name in `.gitignore`. But this task becomes a bit > tedious when there are a lot of unstaged files which you want to ignore. 'unstaged' implies the file is tracked (i.e. previously added), but has local changes. I think you mean 'untracked' here. > `git ignore [file names]` > > would add that file to `.gitignore` If there are lots of untracked files, why is it less tedious to type all of them on the command line, then to type all of them in the .gitignore file? I don't see what effort is being saved. > and other parameters like `--force` > could be added which would delete that file cache if that > file was already committed. I don't understand what you mean by this.