I've appropriately configured a .gitignore file and put it in the base directory of my project, but when I go to the git tab of Visual Studio Code it does not ignore the folder that I'm trying to ignore and therefore is suggesting that there are changes for 4000+ files that I don't care about (the folder that I'm trying to ignore is a virtual environment for python).
Has anyone else successfully gotten the git tab to ignore changes using the .gitignore file?
Gitignore doesn't affect the files which are already tracked.
To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use git rm --cached <dir>. It removes the file from the staging area entirely, but doesn't delete the directory from disk; instead leaves the directory as it is.