Refreshing Git versioned files

Occasionally you would need to add new files to .gitignore. If you have Git already initialised, Git will not forget the files even if you add a new rule to your git ignore. To do this, go to your local repo.

> touch .gitignore

Edit the file.. such as adding the following rules. These rules will ignore all the files with .toc, .tex.bak ….. in all the directories.

/*.synctex.gz
/*.tex.bak
/*.toc

The remove all the tracked files. Do not worry as this will only update the git index and will not delete the actual files.

> git rm -r –cached .
> git add .

And you are done.