Make git recovery history using current .gitignore

Question

I did not use .gitignore to ignore files such as compiled binaries in my project, so these compiled binaries were transferred to the Git repository. And now I am adding .gitignore to my project. I want to rebuild the entire Git repository, ignoring the files listed in .gitignore, without losing history. How can i do this?

Answer 1

Delete these binaries from the current cache if they were added.

git rm --cached abinary

Then your .gitignoreautomatically ignores these binaries.

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