I want git to ignore my csv files. But, when I do git status, I see that the csv is in "Changes not staged for commit". But, I swear I added it to the .gitignore file a while ago. In fact, when I look at the .gitignore file, I see that it is there!
*.csv
So, how to I get git to ignore my csv's? The problem is that I want to be able to do git reset and git checkout without having to worry about the csv files being overwritten in my working directory.
Looks like the problem is that, the csv files are already tracked in a commit before, so even though you add *.csv the git will start tracking the previously tracked files.
You can solve this using git rm --cached option, discussed in detail in this stackoverflow question