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Android Studio - git Local Changes file list - why is ignore option not clickable?

How is it that sometimes I can right click and ignore files but sometimes not?

image showing no possibility to perform ignore on the selected file:

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Solution

  • Android Studio is just following git rules. gitignore is for files which are not tracked yet (didn't added to git) , and here you're trying to ignore already tracked file.
    In order to stop tracking you should use git rm --cached, See official docs.
    I'm not sure if that's possible using Android Studio git UI.